Thanks Renfield, just adding to the catalog, already posted. Whoops.
Posted on 10/18/2013 6:38:03 AM PDT by Renfield
A melting patch of ancient snow in the mountains of Norway has revealed a bow and arrows likely used by hunters to kill reindeer as long ago as 5,400 years.
The discovery highlights the worrying effects of climate change, said study author Martin Callanan, an archaeologist at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
"It's actually a little bit unnerving that they're so old and that they're coming out right now," Callanan told LiveScience. "It tells us that there's something changing."
Locked in snow
Callanan and his colleagues spend every summer hiking up the Trollheim and Dovre mountains a few hours south of Trondheim, Norway, to study the snow patches in the area, track snow melt and look for archaeological artifacts. The mountains stretch 6,200 feet (1,900 meters) above sea level, and at the highest elevations, only rocks and snow prevail year-round....
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LOL...
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'Round these parts we call that "weather."
Yep, been there, done that; got the T-shirt!
Two long handled landing nets in the past four years, left by the fishing site and gone by the time I remembered and returned.
Scientists...empiricism is wasted on some of them.
It is another testament to modern dating techniques that the bow he was using was 1600 years younger than the arrows he made for it. Maybe he was a tomb raider, and that is where he got his arrow supply?
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