Posted on 12/17/2020 12:51:50 PM PST by PAUL09
Melting glacier sheds light upon hidden Viking era artifacts in Norway dated back to 300 AD The tremendous melting of the glaciers resulted in some recent archaeological discoveries revealing several well preserved historical objects, and one of these remarkable finds is the discoveries of artifacts from the Viking era on the hills that were once used for transportation purposes dated back to 300 A.D. as per the study.
More glacial melt, although a disturbing factor of a much larger global warming effect, has provided ample shreds of evidence and remains of the age-old objects for todayâs generation advantageously.
Artifacts from ancient time have been uncovered by ice patches which melted off the slopes of a rugged mountain pass in Norway.
Archaeologists said that it provided a new perspective further into the livelihoods of hunters, merchants, and travelers along with a trail thousands of years old.
At higher altitudes, ice deposits are found, and theyâre not the same as their larger counterparts, glaciers. Inside the moving mass of ice, artifacts frozen in ice are gradually crushed.
Yet ice blocks, that do not move, hold objects in place until the ice melts, and in great condition.
Young student Per Dagsgard from Skjåk visited the ice patch to look for remains of ancient reindeer hunting in September 1974.
Little did he know that on this day- a find still surrounded by mystery-he would make the archaeological discovery of a lifetime.
In about two hours, Dagsgard trekked from the mountains to an ice patch. As he reached the lake next to the ice, he could see that in the past years the ice patch had melted back considerably.
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He walked across the ice and soon returned to the ice patchâs bottom part. He saw a long wooden stick sitting abruptly among all the stones. Located at one end of the stick was a huge metal object.
It became obvious to him as he got closer that it was a real spear, with both the spearhead and the shaft intact.
In 2014, Archaeologist Lars Holger Pilø, study author and co-director of the glacier archaeology program had watched his peers discover the ancient wool tunic that had emerged from a melting ice patch on Lomseggen, a mountain in southern Norway, following the path that Dagsgard took in 1974.
Pilø was now curious again about what was still out there. He and another archaeologist walked away from the group while the rest of the team packed up the precious discovery, tracing the edge of the melting ice veiled in mountain fog.
The Lendbreen ice patch is much smaller than it was when the spear was found in 1974.
When he gazed into the silence, Pilø soon noticed that he was staring at a range of artifacts that had not seen the sunlight of day for centuries.
Worn sleds, tools, and other fragments of everyday life dating back almost two thousand years remained scattered around the surface of the Lendbreen ice patch, which was gradually melting due to global warming.
The artifacts convey a mountain range that provided a crucial transport route for people moving around perpetual snow settlements and high-altitude summer farms farther south, radiocarbon dating from around 300 to 1500 A.D.
Furthermore, as they traversed the rugged terrain, these past voyagers gave up everything from horseshoes to kitchen instruments to things of attire/clothing.
As snow gathered throughout the long term, those lost artifacts were frozen in what in the end turned into the Lendbreen ice patch.
Few discoveries are artifacts abandoned by tourists from daily life, including a knife with a preserved wooden strap, a wooden spindle, and a wooden blender.
A Roman Iron Age tunic, a Viking Age glove, and boots too were identified to be pieces of clothes.
In the archaeological record, other artifacts have no parallels and their role has yet to be determined.
Some of the other dozens of Lendbreen discoveries, such as horseshoes, fossils from packhorses, remains of snowmobiles and even a walking stick with runic carvings, are derived from the original transportation through the route.
Do I really need the sarcasm tag?
The article differentiates between glaciers and”ice patches” stating that articles in glaciers usually get ground up by the glacier movement. These ice formations were somehow stationary but they also formed over time to cover the stuff and now are melting back to where they once were or weren’t. The earth has had quite a few warm stretches it seems besides the one we’re supposed to be in now.
Just because we see glaciers there at this time doesn’t mean that there were glaciers back them.
You can’t use what we see now to then hypothesize it was the same in the past.
It shows that in 300 AD there were no socialists trying to gain control over the means of production.
Think about this for a second. GLACIAL MELT exposed artifacts. Which means at one point in time the glacier WAS EXPOSED!! So why the big deal that the glacier is now at a point it once was a long time ago?
Must have been warmer back then...like Greenland
So what is the anomaly? The warm world of the 20th and 21st centuries, or the cold one from which we are emerging.
It appears the ancients enjoyed these ice free passages.
Glaciers move all the time. The snow at the higher elevations creates new layers of ice, the weight of which causes the ice to ‘flow’ down to lower elevations, and eventually the sea. Look at a fjord in Norway or Alaska. The valleys are ‘U’ shaped from the ice retreating in the summer, advancing in the winter. In winter the ice meets the sea and calves into the ocean.
There was a medieval warm period, so it’s entirely possible that Norse settlements were up on a relatively ice-free plateau. Those settlements could be entombed in ice waiting to be found.
in 500’s a major caldera volcano blew off the coast of South America caused weather changes for years possibly many more we dont yet know about not to mention small asteroid hits all over.
“So what is the anomaly? The warm world of the 20th and 21st centuries, or the cold one from which we are emerging.”
There is no anomaly. That’s how it is. Like saying what is the anomaly - summer or winter? On a time scale though, during the last million years or whatever, the earth has been cold for the vast majority of time, with 5 or 6 “short” peaks of warm periods. Geologically, we are still in the “ice age”.
The Dunning-Kruger affect for most liberals
A lot of it anyway.
What is not volcano.
Roman Warm Period, 250 BC - 400 AD, warmer than it is now in an overall 10,000-year Holocene cooling.
Cooling sucks immediately when it happens. Marginal crops fail in one year.
So, the ice patch was already melting in 1974. Wasn’t that about when the earth was globally cooling leading to our collective deaths?
ping for follow up to see if my comment on the website was actually posted
Maybe I’m reading it wrong, if I am then I apologize. 300 A.D. was not the Viking age, that wouldn’t start until almost 500 years later. I question a study that doesn’t have a basic fact like that correct.
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