Posted on 08/26/2008 5:51:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Melting alpine glaciers are revealing fascinating clues to Neolithic life in the high mountains...
Everyone knows the story of Oetzi the Ice Man, found in an Austrian glacier in 1991. Oetzi was discovered at an altitude of over 3,000m. He lived in about 3,300 BC, leading to speculation that the Alps may have had more human habitation than previously suspected. Now, more dramatic findings from the 2,756m Schnidejoch glacier in Switzerland have confirmed the theory. It all started at the end of the long hot summer of 2003, when a Swiss couple, hiking across a melting Schnidejoch, came across a piece of wood that aroused their curiosity...
careful examination and carbon dating revealed the piece of wood to be an arrow quiver made of birch bark, dating from about 3000 BC...
At first, the news of the find was kept quiet; historians feared treasure hunters on the Schnidejoch as the ice melted. But teams of archaeologists went up, and more and more artefacts were discovered...
Some of the leather found, and a fragment of a wooden bowl, date from 4500 BC, older even than Oetzi, making them the oldest objects ever found in the Alps. And from later periods, a Bronze Age pin has been discovered, as well as Roman coins and a fibula, and items dating from the early Middle Ages.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
| The Schnidejoch glacier records human activity in the region | The ice has protected the leather for thousands of years |
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| Archaeologists needed time to investigate the area | Proof that the Romans came this way |
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| Bit by bit, the Neolithic way of life is being revealed | A reconstruction of the shoes these mountain people used to wear |
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Now they’ll most certainly find a Yeti!
susie
But...but...I thought global warming was supposed to destroy all of humanity! /sarc
Gee, what are the odds that a backwoods caveman would have eating utensil artifacts which were over 1500 years old from his age, in his possession and using them in his same abode when he was frozen for another 3000 years?
..and to think we only have ‘antiques’ that are 20-200 years old in our proximity, and generally not as closer guarded as this poor fellow must have regarded them. IMHO 1500 years is quite a long time for a family to keep a bowl around.
Maybe the dating methods reveal more about their theories than any evidence they have found.
Wow! That means there was a time the area wasn’t buried in ice...maybe this “Global Warming” is really the world returning to its natural state!
Thats a nice looking knapping kit he had.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,357366,00.html
A New Alpine Melt Theory
By Hilmar Schmundt
The Alpine glaciers are shrinking, that much we know. But new research suggests that in the time of the Roman Empire, they were smaller than today. And 7,000 years ago they probably weren’t around at all. A group of climatologists have come up with a controversial new theory on how the Alps must have looked over the ages...
article dated May, 2005.
Martin is an ass. - Friedrich II (Rare reference to German philosopher Mendelssohn.)
That’s not in the article.
The quiver was left somewhere up in the Alps 300 years after the Iceman croaked. The other artifacts were found in various spots, and have various ages, and none of them appear to have anything to do with the Iceman.
:’D
The global warming demagogues should be strung up with piano wire, without trial. But I mean that in the nicest way. :’)
My mistake,..thanks. I was mistaken,
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