Archaeologists unearth 5,000-year-old footprints [Denmark]

Copenhagen Post ^ | November 10, 2014 | Magnus Strøyer Rasmussen

[SunkenCiv]

The Stone Age impressions were remarkably well preserved (Photo: Museum Lolland-Falster)

[ErnBatavia]

I ain't seein' it....however:

[SunkenCiv]

[Vince Ferrer]

The first muslim in Denmark.

[golux]

The prints were left by fishermen looking to safeguard their weirs (river barriers used for fishing) in a storm 5,000 years ago...


Asked for comment, President Obama exclaimed: "Actually, they didn't build that. Those footprints? It was then that I carried them."

[SunkenCiv]

Danish archaeologists find 5,000-year-old human footprints
http://sciencenordic.com/danish-archaeologists-find-5000-year-old-human-footprints

[Army Air Corps]

The prints were left by fishermen looking to safeguard their weirs (river barriers used for fishing) in a storm 5,000 years ago...

Nothin' but steers and weirs in Denmark.

[IronJack]

There is a Viking graveyard called Lindholm Hoje near Aalborg, which sits near a huge fjord. One day in the 11th century, a sandstorm blew in and buried some farm fields near the edge of the graveyard. A local villager drove a two-wheeled carriage over the field, probably in an attempt to flee the storm. The sand covered the field and the tracks for almost a thousand years until 1956 when archeologists began excavating the site. You can see the carriage tracks and the footprints of the owner plainly. It is eerie to think that you’re looking at traces of a man who was alive around the time of the Battle of Hastings.

[SunkenCiv]

Nice! Stuff like that really makes archaeology come alive. One of the first explorers of “ice age” caves found the impressions of bare feet in the moist clay — impressions kept fresh by the conditions, but 10s of 1000s of years old.

[ducttape45]

My comment would be more along the lines of, "How do they know fishermen left them? Surely there were more than fisherman around about 5,000 years ago, descendents of Adam and Eve I'm sure.

[golux]

I sure as heck don't see any horns.

[Kenny Bunk]

"How do they know fishermen left them?"

Beer cans. Sandwich wrappers. Lure packaging. Cigar butts.

Just the normal stuff fisherfolk always leave behind.

[Army Air Corps]

Five-thousand-year-old stink bait must be truly pungent.

[Kenny Bunk]

As a boy in Western Denmark, I often found prehistoric fishing lures and rigs snagged in the bushes and under bridges near fishing hot spots.

[Army Air Corps]

That dude looks like a young John Boehner.

[Larry Lucido]

Well, of course. They didn't have Swiffer yet!

[golux]

"No, no. that is Rapala. That is handmade Norway crap. Better to find Mepp's. Mepps from America. See Mepp's hat? See Mepp's creel? Mepps goood... No fish, much style...."

[Kenny Bunk]

Five-thousand-year-old stink bait must be truly pungent.

Lutefisk and Surstremming, although undoubtedly pungent, are not to be characterized as "stink bait."

Denigrating these Viking Culinary Treats could cause Scandinavians a serious loss of self-esteem and cause them to retaliate by awarding serious assklowns like Al Gore and Barak Hussein Obama, Jr. (or II) Nobel Prizes.

[golux]

(Nobody ever caught anything on a freakin’ spoon. Shh! Don’t tell the “Daredevle” people.)

[Kenny Bunk]

Rapala

Let's Finnish this argument later. Although I must commend the Mepps people for their expensive lures' uncanny ability to get hung up in overhead wires on bridges. Fisherman trying to retrieve them often drown, providing proletarian youngsters with free Mepps Hats AND Creels.

One must also applaud Mepps for making such nice creels even though their lures are quite useless for actually catching fish. "Damned sporting of them," say I!