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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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“Sorry sir, the address of your cave does not contain you full name, no middle initials allowable, please come back when you have the proper paperwork”
Well, yeah, I wouldnt expect too many ancient Norwegians to be running around barefoot, unless they had a few too many flagons of mead!....
Please stand here while we [TSA] stick our fingers up your ass, for your traveling safety, of course!
That would explain why there are so few.......
a few too many flagons of mead...lol.
Why do we modern people always put some sort of religious or regal significance to marks in stone? Heck, they may be just graffiti of an ancient type.......
It could very well be just some Bronze Age teenagers with too much time on their hands. It’s associated with a burial site though, and it takes a good bit of work to carve something into stone. In the Irish and Scottish case, there are also references to things like that in both oral tradition and writings. I don’t know what it is; I was just guessing from other things I know.
That also occurred to me. Were they once painted yellow?
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Could be something as simple as a guy showing his girlfriend a way of pledging his undying love for the ages: “I’ll love you as long as these footprints remain on this rock.”......
Haha. Awesome. I should do something like that.
Ancient Norwegian surfer dudes?.......
It’s more impressive than carving “Thorvald loves Inga” on a tree trunk....
I firmly believe the Norse (or Vikings if you prefer) were in America long before CC. The evidence is fairly convincing.
Looks like its sole templates from the first Birkenstock factory...
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