An excavation of a Stone Age settlement where there was a hut-like structure, dated to roughly 7000 BC. (Photo: Museum of Cultural History)
Posted on 06/04/2018 4:54:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Southeastern Norway is the most populous part of Norway today. Based on an analysis of more than 150 settlements along Oslo Fjord, the area apparently also appealed to Stone Age people. Eleven thousand years ago at the end of the last ice age, Norway was buried under a thick layer of ice. But it didn't take long for folks to wander their way north as the ice sheet melted away. The first traces of human habitation in Norway date from roughly 9500 BC. Steinar Solheim is an archaeologist at the University of Oslo's Museum of Cultural History who has worked on numerous excavations of different Stone Age settlements around Oslo Fjord. Now he and colleague Per Perrson have investigated longer-term population trends in the Oslo Fjord region, based on 157 different Stone Age settlements. All were inhabited between 8000 and 2000 BC... Solheim says that forests began to grow in this region after 9000 BC. "The climate was also quite different, and it was probably a bit warmer than it is today," he said. "We see a lot of hazel, alder, elm, and later oak, all of which are tree species that prefer warmer environments." This area of Norway was also much lower in elevation than it is today, since the weight of the glacial ice was enough to depress the land itself. That means the coastline at the time was also higher than it is today. Stone Age settlements were usually down by the water.
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An excavation of a Stone Age settlement where there was a hut-like structure, dated to roughly 7000 BC. (Photo: Museum of Cultural History)
a Stone Age settlement where there was a hut-like structure
Looks like they had buckets and tape measures too.
Interesting history. Thanks for all of your posts ‘Civ. BUMP!
So, was it lower than it is today, or higher than it is today?
I’m sure the women were just as pretty back then. Just ask Tiger.
I haven’t heard of the Finse event before, that is something I will have to investigate. Robert Schoch was on Joe Rogan’s podcast last week and he is always interesting to listen to.
It never really changed - the coast was, and always ever will be - at sea level!
While the weight of the ice does have some effect - the main issue is all of the water was up in the ice (world wide) so the sea level was low, and coastlines were low. Ice melts, sea level comes up and the coastlines move inland, putting a lot of the coastal settlements underwater. (Of course I’m guessing you knew that already).
The “rebound” effect of the ice is pretty limited. But it is still going on with minor elevation changes, and some oddball small earthquakes.
Interesting read. Thank you!
Never to be reported on by the "mainstream" left-wing media.
They treated 4th World outsiders a bit more suspiciously then, than they do now.
Both.
Thanks for the kind remark!
They got them at Hut Depot.
She’s put on a few pounds since I dated her.
My pleasure!
So THAT'S where all the new Nowegian Aloha Snackbars now live, along the Oslo Fjord!
I am really surprised at some of the areas settled during the Neolithic area. With so few people, you would think they’d reject the less desirable areas. But no, they’re occupying the Orkney, the Shetlands, and Norway.
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