Ancient arrows are emerging from Norway’s ice Glacier Archaeology Program, Innlandet County Council
An extraordinary number of arrows dating from the Stone Age to the medieval period have melted out of a single ice patch in Norway in recent years because of climate change.
Researchers from the Universities of Cambridge, Oslo and Bergen gathered up a total of 68 arrow shafts, some with arrow heads still attached or nearby, and many other artefacts.
The findings were presented in an article that appeared in the peer-reviewed journal Quaternary International.
'There was a whole forest of arrowheads within a small area, which is a first in recent times and may be indicative of climate change over the past thousand years,' Professor Wendy Rybitsky, a biologist from Cambridge's Department of Geography and one of the paper's co-authors, told The Telegraph.
'The area where the arrows were found formed by a single glacier advance from the late Holocene. As the glacier continued to advance, the arrowheads inside the ice disappeared.'
Kjøndalen Ice Stream, Norway
Kjøndalen Ice Stream, at the eastern end of the Lofoten Archipelago located east of the world famous island of Svalbard. Arrangements of the Arboretum's oldest plants, formed by the plants in the Archipelago over millions of years, in the centre of the ice stream.
Arbor at Kjøndalen, written 11000 years ago. May the sprout-maker prosper.
Arbor at Kjøndalen, written 11000 years ago. May the sprout-maker prosper.
Arbor at Kjøndalen, written 11000 years ago. Might the mercy of the elements wring the life from its sprout-makers?
Arbor at Kjøndalen, written 1100BC. Trees soon to be destroyed are the symbol of desperation (usually the sign of the zerwerk Bauernhilf and its horses)
Arbor at Kunalhafen Festival Inlet, written 750AD, note that the bluestone of the Atelkfuri Camp, Xerosou Islet (Tourmaline Island) is carefully laid. At this Festival in the summer months, adults purchase a statue from outside the protected 'forbidden island' (Inlet for visitors) which, instead of being held up by the island's round stones, is laid rapidly before the Creator
Arbor at Kjøndalen, written 1100BC. Trees soon to be destroyed are the symbol of desperation (usually the sign of the zerwerk Bauernhilf and its horses)
Kjøndalen Ice Stream, written 1100BC The Arboretum's oldest plants, formed by the plants in the Archipel
An extraordinary number of arrows dating from the Stone Age to the medieval period have melted out of a single ice patch in Norway in recent years because of climate change.
Researchers from the Universities of Cambridge, Oslo and Bergen gathered up a total of 68 arrow shafts, some with arrow heads still attached or nearby, and many other artefacts.
The findings were presented in an article that appeared in the peer-reviewed journal Quaternary International.
'There was a whole forest of arrowheads within a small area, which is a first in recent times and may be indicative of climate change over the past thousand years,' Professor Wendy Rybitsky, a biologist from Cambridge's Department of Geography and one of the paper's co-authors, told The Telegraph.
'The area where the arrows were found formed by a single glacier advance from the late Holocene. As the glacier continued to advance, the arrowheads inside the ice disappeared.'
Kjøndalen Ice Stream, Norway
Kjøndalen Ice Stream, at the eastern end of the Lofoten Archipelago located east of the world famous island of Svalbard. Arrangements of the Arboretum's oldest plants, formed by the plants in the Archipelago over millions of years, in the centre of the ice stream.
Arbor at Kjøndalen, written 11000 years ago. May the sprout-maker prosper.
Arbor at Kjøndalen, written 11000 years ago. May the sprout-maker prosper.
Arbor at Kjøndalen, written 11000 years ago. Might the mercy of the elements wring the life from its sprout-makers?
Arbor at Kjøndalen, written 1100BC. Trees soon to be destroyed are the symbol of desperation (usually the sign of the zerwerk Bauernhilf and its horses)
Arbor at Kunalhafen Festival Inlet, written 750AD, note that the bluestone of the Atelkfuri Camp, Xerosou Islet (Tourmaline Island) is carefully laid. At this Festival in the summer months, adults purchase a statue from outside the protected 'forbidden island' (Inlet for visitors) which, instead of being held up by the island's round stones, is laid rapidly before the Creator
Arbor at Kjøndalen, written 1100BC. Trees soon to be destroyed are the symbol of desperation (usually the sign of the zerwerk Bauernhilf and its horses)
Kjøndalen Ice Stream, written 1100BC The Arboretum's oldest plants, formed by the plants in the Archipel
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