Posted on 08/21/2022 9:04:37 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists From The Glacier Archaeology Program Have Found An Arrow In The Melting Ice During A Research Project In The Norwegian Mountains.
The project is focusing on a melted ice patch in the Jotunheimen mountain range, where the team has found a preserved arrow with an intact iron arrowhead, shortly after arriving at their base camp 1750 metres above sea level.
The arrow dates from around 1,500 years ago during the Norwegian Iron Age, discovered in a collection of broken rock fragments between larger stones on the lower edge of the icefield.
The team believes that the arrow was lost and deposited downslope by meltwater, and has since been exposed several times over the centuries with the melting ice.
This is indicated by the lack of fletching, the fin-shaped aerodynamic stabilisation normally made from feathers or bark. Evidence of sinew and tar has also been identified, but this survives in a poor state of preservation.
The arrow is tapered towards the end and the nock has been thickened for engaging with a bowstring. The remains of the tar would have glued the fletching to the shaft, while imprints of the thread securing the fletching is still visible.
The team found another arrow earlier this year in the Jotunheimen mountains which dates from around 1,700 years ago. This arrow was found complete with its iron arrowhead, sinew wrappings and aerodynamic feather fletching.
Other discoveries in melting ice patches by the project includes: the best preserved example of skis from prehistory, a Bronze Age shoe, and a lost Viking settlement that contained sleds, dead animals, clothing and household items.
You can follow the progress and updates from the project on their Facebook page.
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lol
What`s the difference between an archaeologist and a glacier archaeologist?
One gives you the cold shoulder?
> Wasn’t there an airplane, that sank down through the ice layers. Something about it would warm more than the surrounding ice.
If it’s the same one, that was in Greenland — a WWII ditch landing.
Don't leave out that they were self-sufficient (not dependent on nanny state), so they were far right too.
and here I thought all along that it was spelled,
a-r-c-h-e-o-l-g-y
Not always, when specializing in comic books, it’s a-r-c-h-i-e-o-l-o-g-y.
I shot an arrow into the air
It fell to earth I know not where.
Until one day, with rage profound,
The man it fell on came around.
In less time than it takes to tell,
he showed me where the arrow fell.
And now I do not rightly care,
To shoot more arrows into the air.
I found a bronze spear head in the shoulder blade of a mastodon on the side of a bluff here in Puget Sound, Washington state. You might say, no way, they didn’t have smeltering knowledge or capability during the ice age, yet there it is, wedged tightly into the shoulder of this woolley mammoth. We also have the bones and teeth but no tusks were found. I’d like to have it tested at UW but like a quartz arrow head I gave to them once for testing and never saw again, I fear it will go missing. So much out there that is kept under wraps, for what? I don’t know. What are they afraid of finding out do you think? Like so many things in our culture and politics, any straying from the official narrative is taboo.
So maybe that is the trick, aliens need higher temperatures. So we need higher temperatures for the aliens to return. Win win, with higher temperatures we won't freeze to death and we get some cool new technology. If it gets really hot we can mine Antarctica.
No thanks, Fakebook.
” Think of all the neat stuff we’ll find before gorebal warming kills us all.”
Don’t think I did not see that
but did they find the Australopithecus spiff-arino that shot the arrow?
A Glacier archaeologist has ice in his veins.
I shot an arrow into the ice.
If I could find it,
T’would sure be nice..................😁
One is cooler than the other...........😉
And drinks Gatorade.
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