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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Thanks t!
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Re: “And it was probably a bit warmer than it is today.”
I recently read that around 9,700 BC ice cores from Greenland show that the average temperature increased by 18 degrees F in just 150 years!
That might explain why forests returned around that same time period to Greenland’s polar neighbor, Norway.
World population estimates for 10,000 BC are less than 1% of today’s population, so man made climate change did not even exist back then.
Thanks! sounds like the basis for episode one of a specialized travel v’log.
In the shadow of the Moon
New Scientist | 30 January 1999 | editors
Posted on 08/31/2004 8:42:25 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1203912/posts?page=34#34
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1176502/posts?page=4#4
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1173287/posts?page=13#13
They’d have just thrown them into the fjords, with their boots tied around their necks.
Wasnt it alot warmer then ?
All you can eat pickled herring and no need to deal with pesky neighbors. Life was good.
Ya, lif was goot. But it vas all sveden bac den.
Ahhhhhh....good one!
So much tasty whale meat and dried fish. A paradise on Earth.
Whale meat again, don’t know how, don’t know when...
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