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Hidden Viking trade route emerges from melting ice in Norway
Science Magazine ^
| April 15, 2020
| Andrew Curry
Posted on 04/17/2020 10:29:42 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
In 2011, hikers in the snowy mountains of central Norway came across a 1700-year-old wool tunic, likely belonging to a Roman-era hypothermia victim. As ice in the region has continued to melt, researchers have made hundreds of additional finds. Now, archaeologists have made their biggest discovery yet: a lost Viking trade route that may have been used for hundreds of years to ferry everything from butter to reindeer antlers to far-flung European markets.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: agw; ancientnavigation; globalcooling; godsgravesglyphs; middleages; navigation; renaissance; romanempire; vikings; vikingtraderoute; warmperiod
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So were the Vikings ice-skating through that pass?
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
04/17/2020 10:48:20 PM PDT
by
SteveH
To: CheshireTheCat
But remember, if any ice melts anywhere thats bad and unprecedented. Hmm....guess the Vikings must have tunneled under the ice because surely their road couldnt have been ice-free until evil SUVs came along.
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posted on
04/17/2020 11:22:53 PM PDT
by
noiseman
(The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.`)
To: CheshireTheCat
From the article:
The Viking Age was one of small-scale globalization. Thats one way to describe raping and pillaging. So that makes todays large-scale globalization what?
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posted on
04/17/2020 11:33:38 PM PDT
by
Natty Bumppo@frontier.net
(We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
To: CheshireTheCat
They used it to send Stefon Diggs to Buffalo.
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posted on
04/18/2020 12:21:36 AM PDT
by
OrangeHoof
(The Democrats - Unafraid to burn in Hell.)
To: nutmeg
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posted on
04/18/2020 12:24:51 AM PDT
by
nutmeg
(Mega prayers for Rush Limbaugh)
To: SteveH
I very much like Vikings on the History channel. Kind of B and corny but still very good. For sure I was always looking at their backdrops. Much more watchable than typical Hollywood swill.
Still some more Vikings episodes to come in a few months.
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posted on
04/18/2020 12:35:35 AM PDT
by
dennisw
To: noiseman; CheshireTheCat
But remember, if any ice melts anywhere thats bad and unprecedented. Absolutely.
So, we wont be seeing any reporting of this find in the MSM as a shocking discovery that refutes the Consensus that climate change brought on by excessive human CO2 generation is causing Global Warming.
Nope, wont be seeing that in the news.
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posted on
04/18/2020 1:16:15 AM PDT
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
To: noiseman
That was the Medieval Warm Period, AKA the Medieval Climate Optimum. Of course now everyone tries to sweep that nomenclature, even the event, under the rug, because their grants depend on pushing the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Change / Global Warming party line, and that history isnt politically correct. So it gets erased, much like Trotsky was.
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posted on
04/18/2020 1:30:47 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: Pontiac
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posted on
04/18/2020 1:31:39 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: FreedomPoster
But remember, if any ice melts anywhere thats bad and unprecedented. And of course, the Medieval Warm Period ended with the Mini Ice Age.
Following the Mini Ice Age was the modern warming period that began in the mid Eighteenth Century about 100 years before the Industrial Revolution that supposedly started Global Warming.
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posted on
04/18/2020 1:44:44 AM PDT
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
To: noiseman
Because not only a scientist, but also an expert said so. They tell us what to believe. They are infallible, inerrant and smarter than all of us commoners.
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posted on
04/18/2020 1:57:01 AM PDT
by
momincombatboots
(Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with)
To: CheshireTheCat
Its a society operating close to the carrying capacity of the landscape, Sindbæk says. If there wasnt such a large population, they wouldnt need to exploit these niches. There are other just a reasonable possible reasons to live in a remote place.
A small group looking for unoccupied land for instance.
In a feudal society where arable land is tied up by the aristocracy you have to go to remote places to find free land to farm.
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posted on
04/18/2020 2:10:09 AM PDT
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
To: FreedomPoster
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posted on
04/18/2020 2:15:16 AM PDT
by
4Liberty
(BERNIE SANDERS: A CRUSTY, ANTI-AMERICAN WEIRDO. - Kurt Schlichter)
To: CheshireTheCat
Those reindeer farts were devastating.
To: CheshireTheCat
From the article
The team identified dozens of piled stone cairns marking a path up from the valley below, and the foundations of a shelter just below the ridgeline. It dawned on us that this was a mountain pass, from a river valley nearby to high mountain pastures, Piloe says...Locals used year-round snow cover to navigate the ridges jagged rocks...with the so-called Little Ice Age, a centuries long cold spell that began around 1300 C.E., the plague crushed the areas economy. The pass was forgotten for more than 500 yearsuntil archaeologists rediscovered it. After another extreme summer melt in 2018, Piloe says, all Lendbreens Viking-era ice, along with the artifacts it once concealed, is probably gone.
I'm confused. So they preferred travel on snow but then the Little Ice Age ruined the pass for them? They somehow built stone cairns and a foundation under the snow? Or did they build them on top of the snow/ice and when that melted the stones settle on the actual ground? They were bringing their sheep up the snow covered mountain to pastures? And now that global warming has destroyed the "Viking era ice", all the artifacts they are describing are gone too? I guess I am too stupid to be reading anything in Science Magazine.
To: CheshireTheCat
I wonder what brand of tire tracks were left by their SUVs.
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posted on
04/18/2020 4:48:31 AM PDT
by
kickstart
("A gun is a tool. It is only as good or as bad as the man who uses it" . Alan Ladd in 'Shane')
To: CheshireTheCat
No, the Vikings back then were REAL men. They made their own trade routes on top of ice and during severe snow storms.
No global warming for those guys!!
;)
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posted on
04/18/2020 5:29:46 AM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(Gays can give blood but I can't)
To: Natty Bumppo@frontier.net
Vikings settled in northern France, intermarried with French women, and become known as the
Normans ("north men"). The Normans later went on to invade Britain and become the British aristocracy.
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posted on
04/18/2020 5:42:08 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
To: CheshireTheCat
So there was no ice there when the Vikings were around? You mean climate changes on it’s own??? (No internal combustion engines 1000 years ago I assume)
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