Posted on 02/05/2011 8:50:14 PM PST by Red Badger
It looked to be a routine excavation of what was thought to be a burial mound. But beneath the mound, archaeologists from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's Museum of Natura History and Archaeology found something more: unusual Bronze Age petroglyphs. "We believe these are very special in a Norwegian context," says museum researcher and project manager Anne Haug. The excavation in Stjørdal, just north of Trondheim, was necessitated by the expansion of a necessitated by the expansion of a gravel pit. Given that project archaeologists didn't anticipate that the dig would be very complicated the museum researchers dedicated the museum researchers dedicated just three weeks to the effort. Petroglyphs under a cremation site Then came the surprises. First, it turned out that mound builders had used an existing hill as a starting point -- which of course saved them point -- which of course saved them time and effort. The hill itself made the burial mound even larger and more monumental than it might more monumental than it might have otherwise been But researchers suspected there might be another reason for the choice of the hilltop when they uncovered the remains of two cremations, or rather a fire layer that also contained bits of bone. Underneath they found many petroglyphs, including eight drawings showing the soles of feet, with cross hatching. There were also five shallow depressions, Haug says....
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Ping....
Looks like the outline of a pair of feet. “Please stand here and wait for assistance.”
Bronze Age boot camp?.....
Bronze Age DMV
Reminds me of the old story about the cross, the fish, the diamond, the rabbit and the cat, all found carved in stone.
Okay, Rose, I’ll bite. What is the story, etc.....
“Are you eyeballin’ me, Grog?!”
YOU GET IT!!!!!...lol!!!...
Or "Please stand here and hold your hands over your head until the scanner completes."
Leather gloves instead of rubber ones...
“Don’t touch my junk”
“Later research showed the remains belonged to two ancient Norwegian DMV employees who requested yet more paperwork of King Thor the Incinerator”
lol
Make your mark on this parchment, and this one, and on our file copy...
The Thor Murrayssen Dance Studio.
One petroglyph was translated: it said, in English - “Kilroy was here”.
Really wrecked the archaeological timeline as to who discovered Norway first, the Swedes or the Brits. (I know that Kilroy was an American character, but Norway is a bit older than America so we couldn’t have discovered it unless we were into time travel, and Norway would not be on our travel agenda. Tahiti would, though.)
South Scandinadivan dance step diagram?
Looks like the lines indicate these were shoed feet.
Seems to be a hint of a word across one of these things.
.. ECCO??
This reminds me of footprints also carved into stone of Ireland or Scotland, where the rightful king was said to make the stone ‘sing’ when he stepped in place. That it’s closely associated with an important burial site, even more so. A lot of the story of our ancestors is unwritten...
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