Good catch! And here we thought these were modern inventions! Lol!
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencenordic.com ...
The timing of the Finse event appears to coincide with the third Storegga Slide event.
Oh, life has always been good for the stoned Norwegians.
They smoked Herring, man!
How did they keep those fish lit?
Sorry, couldn’t resist. I really appreciate
your archeology threads.
Let me know if you find any on the Ethnobotany of the Maya.
One of my interests.
Good catch! And here we thought these were modern inventions! Lol!
In your (and my) dreams!
I think a lot of migration is driven by a desire to get clear of murderous SOBs that want to take all their stuff. Sometimes, the bad climate is worth the bother.
SunkenCiv,
Yet another excellent post!
FReegards,
they had enemies to avoid which would make such sites attractive.
Probably the result of being maritime libertarians and wanting to avoid mainland despots.
Ya have to be ofast to catch ‘em.
If you look at the line of red dots representing the settlements, you get a very clear picture of how much faster the land has risen than the sea level.
If you guys haven’t been there, you should go there on a vacation. Do it near end of June when the days are almost 24 hours long!
Walking down the sidewalks in Oslo or Bergen or any major city, you’ll just turn your head from side to side and go “Wow, wow, wow!”
And by the way, Elin Maria Pernilla Nordegren is Swedish, not Norwegian, and the above happens just as often in Stockholm or Gothenburg!
Meant to reply to you as well!
Yes - I noticed that of course AFTER I posted. Surprising. Although earlier in the article it also said it was a lot warmer than today based on the trees at the sites. So that to me would imply that there was LESS snowpack/glaciers. (Which would cause higher water levels).
Wiki indicates that Lake Superior is about 300’ higher in elevation than when it was at it’s lowest point with all the ice on it. Rocks moving over millions of years is one thing. The entire plate moving 300’ in 12,000 years or whatever - that’s pretty amazing.
Wiki indicates that Lake Superior is about 300’ higher in elevation than when it was at it’s lowest point with all the ice on it. Rocks moving over millions of years is one thing. The entire plate moving 300’ in 12,000 years or whatever - that’s pretty amazing.
They probably didn’t have to listen to SWJs or deal with LGBTQ issues.
They probably had a schoool for it. /rimshot
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