Nice...another Discovery in Norway due to the melting ice...
Norway ice melt reveals 'frozen archive' of ancient reindeer-hunting arrows
By Harry Clarke-Ezzidio, CNN
Updated 11:10 AM ET, Thu November 26, 2020
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/26/europe/ancient-norwegian-arrows-found-scli-intl-scn/index.htmlLondon (CNN) Archaeologists have uncovered a haul of ancient artifacts from a melted ice patch in Norway, including a record number of arrows used for reindeer hunting from more than 6,000 years ago.
The team found 68 arrows at the Langfonne ice patch in the Jotunheimen Mountains, tracing the artifacts back to various periods of time across thousands of years, from the
Stone Age all the way through to the
Medieval Period.
The discovery, published this week as a study in The Holocene journal, also included the remains of reindeer antlers, Iron Age scaring sticks used in reindeer hunting and a 3,300-year-old shoe from the
Bronze Age. The arrows mark the earliest ice finds in Northern Europe, according to the study's authors.
Researchers discovered a plethora of ancient arrows that date across various periods of Norwegian
history.
Researchers discovered a plethora of ancient arrows that date across various periods of Norwegian
history.
Norway's Jotunheimen Mountains are located more than 200 miles (in excess of 320 kilometers)
north of the capital, Oslo.
