Flint objects with completely straight and parallel side edges told archaeologists that what they had found was extra exciting.Credit: Silje Elisabeth Fretheim
Posted on 08/25/2023 9:26:24 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
...at Vinjeøra in southern Trøndelag County... The first discoveries to make it to the surface... large pieces of flint that were highly reminiscent of early, pioneer settlements...
When the excavations in Vinjeøra got under way properly... the researchers found evidence from people who came to Finnmark from the east around 9000 BC.
The ice remained the longest in Scandinavia compared to the rest of Europe during the last Ice Age. The Norwegian coast only became free of ice around 12,500 years ago. The first people arrived in what we now know as Norway and Sweden about 1,000 years later.
Skeletal analyses have previously shown that Scandinavia experienced two major waves of migration in the time after the ice had started to retreat. The first came from the southwest. It was made up of people who had lived in modern-day Spain and Portugal during the last Ice Age and who later moved north as the ice melted away. They were blue-eyed, but their skin was darker than today's Scandinavians...
A thousand years later, there was another major wave of migration, this time from the northeast. These were people who had traveled from areas around the Black Sea or Ukraine, heading north through Russia and Finland to the coast of Finnmark. They had lighter skin and their eye colors varied.
They had their own technique for creating stone tools... This technique eventually took over and became dominant...
It appears that the people from the east absorbed the lifestyle of those who were already here and, during the early centuries, they lived a nomadic life in lightweight housing structures, perhaps tents. Their food came from the sea and boats were likely key, just as they were for the pioneers from the south.
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
Flint objects with completely straight and parallel side edges told archaeologists that what they had found was extra exciting.Credit: Silje Elisabeth Fretheim
This one's very interesting, but can't be posted due to copyright complaint by the source:
This predates Germanic Scandinavians.
“...the researchers found evidence from people who came to Finnmark from the east around 9000 BC.”
So, illegal immigration has always been a problem? ;)
I love this stuff. I have a number of arrowheads that are pretty special. ;)
Once we had fire and tools, there was NO stopping us. :)
And their name was Chad. And they followed the god Bigboy. And their women were comely. Evidence shows that they were among the first snowboarders. But also that they surfed in the summer. Amazing what you can learn from a few pointy stones.
"Over there in that dry creek bed, I found a couple of Shoshone arrowheads"
I recently had my DNA tested and I’ve got Germanic Europe and Norway, which was a surprise. Anyways I’ve always been told Im part German but family tree traces back to the Netherlands. My question is why do they call it Germanic Europe instead of German or Dutch similar to how Irish Scottish and English are separate.
until the EPA came along
Ah, the first black metal picks.
Seriously, I enjoy these posts, thanks.
Extremely significant! Those are prismatic blades!
Thanks!
Thank you!
Because the Germanic tribes spread over most of western Europe during the iron age. Dutch, and North Germans are all so genetically similar they have a hard time telling them apart in Ancestry DNA and others. I have the same issue being Scandinavian descendant it really can’t tell the difference between Swedes, Norwegians, Danes and others. It generally “knows” I’m Scandinavian but the percentages of each community change every 6 months are more genetic info gets added to the database.
Interesting. It did group my sweden/Denmark together but had Norway separate. When updates come in does that mean they literally retested your sample if you opted to store it and then they notify you by email? Anxiously awaiting my husband’s results now. He started working on his tree I also have it side by side to mine and got far enough to be surprised in getting a set of the same people in our trees. Turns out we share the same 10th great grandfather lol.
Yes, you get continual updates and your percentages and locations will change over time as they get more data.
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