Soon after the arrow's discovery.Credit: secretsoftheice.com
Posted on 09/20/2023 9:31:47 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists working with Norway’s Secrets of the Ice program recently got a shock when a arrow shaft they had previously dated to the Iron Age turned out to be some 4,000 years old.
...after the researchers cleaned the glacial silt off one end, they found a notch befitting a stone arrowhead and not an iron one. The team co-directed by Lars Holger Pilø – an archaeologist with the local Department of Cultural Heritage – concluded that the arrow dated to the Stone Age, pending radiocarbon dating.
Whatever the results, the arrow joins a wealth recovered by Secrets of the Ice, which has recovered examples from as early as 6,000 years ago from the melting ice of Norway, according to secretsoftheice.com...
Once they have decided on a location, they hike up to it and camp sometimes for weeks on end while scouring the margins where the ice has just melted. They slowly patrol up and down the ribbon of bare rock where the surrounding lichen has yet to rebound (a process that takes hundreds of years), looking for what the ice has just released. Their recent discoveries include a worn knife blade, a snowshoe for a horse and a rare arrow made with a freshwater pearl mussel...
Secrets of the Ice has discovered many hunting artifacts as the Norwegian ice once served as a major hunting ground for reindeer during the summer. Then, the animals sought to escape swarms of parasitic botflies at lower altitudes but instead ran into the arrows of humans, who herded them using wooden "scaring sticks." Archaeologists have recovered many of the sticks, which held an object that moved in the wind and startled the animals into the range of human bows.
(Excerpt) Read more at discovermagazine.com ...
Soon after the arrow's discovery.Credit: secretsoftheice.com
looks like a stick to me
Thank global warming.
So much for the global warming farce...
A Møøse once bit my sister... No realli!
So it was as warm 4000 years ago as it is now?
It got colder sometime after 2000 BC and we’re just now warming up to those earlier levels!
Alas, the technology for ice-penetrating arrows is long lost.
Wow, that is amazing perseverance and patience! We just visited the Columbia Glacier on the Icefields Parkway between Banff and Jasper, AB. Looking at the scale of the lateral and terminal moraines you get an appreciation for the mammoth size and power of the glaciers. I can't imagine the patience required to search through all the rocks for ancient artifacts like this arrow shaft. Kudos to the team for doing this work!
“So it was as warm 4000 years ago as it is now?”
Bingo!!
Rick from “Pawn Stars” will give you $100 for it. TOPS!
Bingo. Unless it has the maker’s mark, or at least the initials, I’m not buying it. sarc.
So…..it must’ve been warmer 4,000 years ago. We’re Iron Age people driving around carbon emitting SUVs or something?
Once again, proof that man made climate change is a lie!
Earth’s climate has been changing since day 1. Humans in comparison to other factors such as the sun, moon, rotation and tilt, has no more effect on climate then a butterfly fart!
Do you mean the global warming now, or the global warming of 4000 years ago when the items were first deposited?
Global cooling. It kept the arrow preserved. The warming made it discoverable.
So, it was ‘warm’ back then?
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