Posted on 07/04/2012 6:07:40 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
During a recent mapping of the rare virgin forest in and around the Øvre Dividalen National Park in Troms, Norway, scientists noticed some scars reappearing on the trees. Many trees had some of their bark cut away on one side, leaving marks that were hard to explain.
Arve Elvebakk of the University of TromsØ (UiT) headed the study. He worked together with Andreas Kirchhefer, an expert in dating old trees by tree-ring analysis. He had already used ancient pines to chart weather and climate conditions.
Could the cuts in the bark have been left by settlers who started farms in the Dividalen valley in 1850? These dalesmen logged the pine forest, but the scars appeared to be from long before this.
Some suggested the cuts in bark could have been made by indigenous Sami herders as markers of reindeer migration routes and indicators of territorial grazing rights – or simply as signs marking footpaths.
A third proposal was that the cuts were made by Finnish immigrants who used the trees for bark bread. In hard times with failed crops and famine at home they could cross over to Norway in search of food and game.
"How wrong we were," says Elvebakk.
The mystery was solved when the scars in the bark were dated back to the 17th and 18th centuries. This was over a century before the dalesmen arrived. There were also too many of the scars for the footpaths or reindeer routes theory to be plausible.
"It turned out that this came from the ancient Sami practice of harvesting pine bark for food," explains Elvebakk. "In a laborious process the bark was converted into flour that could be used in cooking."
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencenordic.com ...
Plants from a Viking garden:
http://www.univeur.org/UserFiles/File/Download%20pdf/Pact%2042/07%20M.%20Eggen.pdf
(Angelica, onion, pea, cabbage, turnip, bean, cress, hemp {Cannabis}, woad, hop, apple, and plum)
:’)
It was aliens.
“It turned out that this came from the ancient Sami practice of harvesting pine bark for food,” explains Elvebakk. “In a laborious process the bark was converted into flour that could be used in cooking.”
Wow,Is that real.
Bumper sticker from the period.
I remember Euell Gibbons. Despite his constant promotion of eating natural foods, living a natural lifestyle, etc., he was in his early 60s when he passed away.
Party time in Fangorn Forest!
Does it do any good?
Thanks,:)
Ringing in the ears? pfffft Just wait ‘til you get real tin nitus, and flakes of tin start clanging down at odd times from your ears! The tinkling noise can be very distracting, and call attention tot you when you least want it.
Ringing in the ears? pfffft Just wait ‘til you get real tin nitus, and flakes of tin start clanging down at odd times from your ears! The tinkling noise can be very distracting, and call attention to you when you least want it.
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Heh.
Proof that after a forest is let go fallow for a period of time, econazis can’t even tell it if was virgin or not... unless some old, ecofriendly “noble savages” barked the trees.
On hillsides where the soils have had small landslides you’ll see something similar. But this is flat. I wonder if a wind burst/mini tornado bent and/or broke the group of 400 trees but they didn’t die, and continued to grow from their bent position?
Really cool photo!
And you claim to be a good cook! ;-)
Although I’m not sure how nutritious pine bark would be. Plenty of roughage, though.
Damn rabid trolls.
Not the trees. Trolls yes, trees, no.
/johnny
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