Posted on 06/28/2020 1:12:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The whole story starts with a farmer.
Specifically, the farmer at Jortveit farm in southern Norway. Around the beginning of the 1930s he decided to drain a wetland near the farm so he could cultivate new land.
But while he was working on the deep drainage trenches, strange things started to crop up. Bones from a bluefin tuna and a killer whale. And huge fish hooks and harpoons made of bones. In the middle of the wetland!
The tools eventually ended up in the University Museum of Antiquities in Oslo, where they were studied by archaeologists. The bones, on the other hand, were examined by geologists at the Natural History Museum.
But none of the researchers could make sense of what they had.
Putting the tools and bones in context
The archaeologist at the time thinks the tools must have come from a settlement. They are reminiscent of Stone Age finds from elsewhere. But the site is far too low compared to the sea level at that time.
The geologist, for his part, can't understand what this killer whale was doing so far up on land. Was it stranded there more than 6,000 years ago, during a period when the sea level was dropping?
(Excerpt) Read more at partner.sciencenorway.no ...
Is the bait still usable?
maybe..a bay or cove that orca used to herd bluefin, which the indigenous capitalized on? It’d be interesting to compare the orca bones with specimens of those in the below article, which speaks of existing 5,000 year old pods who hunt and herd bluefin in waters less than 300 meters depth and can be seen 100 meters from the beach.
Did they found a Bass Boat with a 200 horsepower Yamaha? Or an Igloo Cooler with beer in it?
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