A small knife with a wooden handle, probably from the Iron Age, was one of the treasures found by archaeologists at the glacier Lendbreen in Oppland County, Norway during the 2014 summer season. (Photo: Oppland County)
Posted on 01/17/2015 4:36:15 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Mittens, shoes, weapons, walking sticks -- lost in the high mountains of Norway thousands of years ago -- are now emerging from melting ice.
Around 7,000 years ago the Earth was enjoying a warm climate. Now glaciers and patches of perennial ice in the high mountains of Southern Norway have started to melt again, revealing ancient layers...
The summer of 2014 was hectic in this respect. In Oppland County alone, Pilø and his colleagues found 400 objects, now emerged from the deepfreeze.
Among these were a horse skull and hiking staffs from the Viking Age. An arrow shaft found by the archaeologists is from the Stone Age.
An ancient route over the mountains once passed by the glacier where Lars Pilø and his colleagues conducted field work. People crossed the mountains with livestock, and went back and forth to their high summer farms -- or simply travelled from one place to another. They have left a wide array of artefacts in their wake over the centuries, to the delight of 21st century archaeologists...
Such objects reveal copious information about the people who lived in Norway as far back as the Stone Age. The material is emerging quickly so archaeologists have to work fast to gather them and preserve them as well as nature has done for so long.
Such artefacts from ancient mountain people are also being found in the Rocky Mountains, the Andes and the Alps.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencenordic.com ...
A small knife with a wooden handle, probably from the Iron Age, was one of the treasures found by archaeologists at the glacier Lendbreen in Oppland County, Norway during the 2014 summer season. (Photo: Oppland County)
“Around 7,000 years ago the Earth was enjoying a warm climate”>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
You mean we had global warming before and it didn’t destroy the planet...........whowoodathunk...eh???
It’s that 0.01 degree increase, donchaknow....
No....it had to have been a Delorean causing globull warming
I'm just having a little bit of trouble with putting that within the time frame. Doesn't look right.
Looks like a shank you might find in a prison.
Lies! These items were buried there recently by global warming deniers! There was more ice there in the past. Al Gore told me so.
Iron was so expensive and hard to produce that tools were as small as possible.
...car keys, single socks, TV remote controls, reading glasses, wallets, etc.
If anyone sees a pair of gloves, let me know.
I knew I left that somewhere!
"enjoying"? The warmists will tell you that the Earth was "suffering" from the warm climate. Al Gore knows a fever when he sees one.
So you are one of those evil, despicable deniers, huh?
Agree...looks,like some kid made it a couple decades ago. Did Ogg have a lathe to turn the handle?
Ogg didn’t build that. Someone else mined the ore and melted it down. Someone else harvested the wood.
I hear it had a very pleasant aroma.
“Among these were a horse skull....”. So thats where I left my my horse tied up.
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