The remains of a settlement discovered on a remote mountain pass has been radiocarbon dated to the Viking Age. The findings confirm a local legend. Norway's melting glaciers continue to reveal incredible archaeological finds. Now,
6,000-year-old hunting arrows revealed by melting ice in Norway
Isabella O Malley
jeudi, 3 décembre 2020 à 08:44 - Warming atmospheric temperatures are revealing new archaeological opportunities across thawing European landscapes.
A growing number of archaeologists are venturing to glaciers and ice patches in hopes of discovering ancient items that were once frozen. A study published in
The Holocene reports that researchers have discovered dozens of hunting arrows in Norway, some of which date back over 6,000 years.
The researchers discovered 121 artifacts in the Langfonne ice patch, a mountainous permafrost zone and an area where a 3,300-year-old shoe was discovered in 2006. An ice mass that was roughly 2.5 square kilometres covered this region during the 14th to 19th centuries, which eventually melted into three separate patches by 2014.
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
Archaeologists have discovered a record number of ancient arrows in a melted ice patch in Norway.
London (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.