Posted on 10/04/2010 5:14:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The discovery of a "sealed" Stone Age house site from 3500 BC has stirred great excitement among archaeologists from Norway's Museum of Cultural History at the University in Oslo. The settlement site at Hamresanden, close to Kristiansand's airport at Kjevik in Southern Norway, looks like it was covered by a sandstorm, possibly in the course of a few hours.
The catastrophe for the Stone Age occupants has given archaeologists an untouched "mini-Pompeii," containing both whole and reparable pots... the team working on the site at Hamresanden has discovered so many large shards of pottery that they think they can put together as many as eight beaker-shaped vessels.
The dwelling site lies 11 meters over sea level today, but was at the water's edge 5,500 years ago. The find is located at the modern Hamresanden camping site, some 70 to 80 meters from today's shoreline... the archaeologists have also found as many as 20 arrowheads and tailings from tool production, including "complete wooden artifacts."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsinenglish.no ...
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There's a broad path East and West across the Fenno-Scandian peninsula that has NO readily accessible archaeological sites, and here's something that's almost a first!
Wonder what the Fluoride content is.
too bad they don’t have cameras in norway
Nah, couldn't be. They must be mistaken.
“too bad they dont have cameras in norway”
Now that is funny. Your comment had me chuckling for a long time. I was thinking that with such a great find, wouldn’t there be at least one photo?
Hope the archeologists don’t wander into some Norwegian “mini-Naples”
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Thanks for the link.
thanks!
Nordic Sami people Lavvu 1900-1920
Norges «mini-Pompeii» De best bevarte keramikkrukker fra yngre steinalder som noen gang er funnet i Norge, er dukket opp fra en forseglet boplass. Funnet kalles en arkeologisk sensasjon.
THe entire “North” is rising to this day. The weight of miles deep glacial ice load, now gone, pushed down. The resulting rising is called “rebound”.
Nah, couldn't be. They must be mistaken.
Actually, most of that 11 meters is due to glacial rebound.
The weight of the ice pushes down the land mass and when the ice is gone, it slowly rises (as it is still doing today). The tops of the fjords in Scandinavia were not too long ago at sea level.
I wonder if these people had any ancestor we call “Kennewick Man”? IMO certainly worth the thought and maybe further study.
What, you scoff at levitation? ;’)
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