Glacier reveals 5,4. Stone Age arrow. September 1. The oldest artefact ever found in a Scandinavian snowdrift glacier has researchers abuzz. Aukrust came home from an extraordinarily successful hunting trip in Dovrefjell, a mountainous area in central Norway. In addition to a reindeer buck, they had three arrows and two bows that had melted out of a glacier. One of the arrows turned out to be from another reindeer hunt, but the hunt had taken place 5,4. This is the oldest archaeological find from mountain snowsfields in Scandinavia. King Aun Sacrifices Nine Sons to Odin Sweden King Aun returned to Uppsala when he was sixty years of age. He made a great sacrifice, and in it offered up his son to Odin. Sweden (Swedish: Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north and Finland to the. Discover Old Tjikko in Älvdalen S, Sweden: The world's oldest individual clonal tree looks like a wimp despite standing tall for 9,550 years. This arrow, and a slightly younger one dating back 5,2. Antiquity by archaeologist Martin Callanan of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). But it wasn’t until recently that objects that date back to the Stone Age started emerging.“The things we find are frozen and we think ice must have been there, if not permanently, at least most of the time. Otherwise the bits of wood and leather we find would not have been preserved,” says Callanan.“Things are emerging here that are 5,0. We’ve never seen this before.”“This could indicate that there hasn’t been a comparable melting of the ice in the past 5,0. It could be an indication that something new is happening. One hypothesis is that global warming is the culprit. Callanan tells of other signs of large- scale climate changes having an impact on Dovrefjell and the Sn. The permafrost is becoming shallower and plants are getting footholds higher up the mountains. A snowdrift glacier can preserve such perishables. Whereas regular glaciers consist of heavy sheets of ice that flow as much as tens of metres per year, snowdrifts that accumulate in a shady spot or depression can accumulate and turn into solid ice over the years that then stays put. This increases the chances of finding intact artefacts, now that warmer conditions are melting these mini- glaciers. When the ancestors of many of today’s Norwegians hunted reindeer in the mountains they would occasionally miss a target or damage their weapons – losing or discarding them in the snow. Under the right conditions some of these artefacts have been preserved in ice for thousands of years. Just a few years ago archaeologists figured the oldest objects anyone could expect to find in snowdrift glaciers would be about 2,0.
But in 2. 00. 6 they started finding older objects, proving that the patches of ice had been there much longer than anyone had thought. Glaciologists have started taking core samples of snowdrift glaciers in Norway and elsewhere in the world and have confirmed that they can be much older than previously assumed. Together with local amateurs such as Tord Bretten who have been trained by the museum in rudimentary archaeology, the museum has been accumulating such artefacts since 1. But in the last decade the number of finds has nearly skyrocketed, with 2. ![]() Findings of this magnitude are enough for a whole generation and we received all of them in a single season,” says Callanan. Well over half – 1. This year’s season has just begun and seven discoveries have been made so far. Martin Callanan and his colleagues gathered around to look at the piece of bone, placed on a bed of paper in a little tin. They are keen to find out whether the method used to make it will indicate its age and what type of animal bone was used. Bretten got interested in finding artefacts in snowdrifts in Oppdal when he was 1. After that it took 1. ![]() ![]()
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