Scandinavia’s oldest snow patch find discovered in Norway
Scandinavia’s oldest snow patch find discovered in Norway
Published on Thursday, 5th September, 2013 at 10:24 under the news category, by Michael Sandelson and Lyndsey Smith
Tord Bretten and Line B. Aukrust found the fragments of the five Neolithic arrowshafts and a Neolithic longbow in August 2011 in the central Norway’s Dovrefjell mountain range. Their discoveries are estimated to be around 5,400 years old.
“These discoveries are the oldest in Scandinavia as far as we know,” Martin Callanan at NTNU’s (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Department of Archaeology and Religious Studies tells The Foreigner.
“The people who found them are collectors who work in cooperation with the museum. One of them has been collecting things for over 30 years.”
Calling the “a lovely piece of work”, Mr Callanan explains, “We don’t often get to see the wooden parts of Stone Age artefacts. We often find arrowheads but the way the shaft is preserved is rather unique. That’s what makes snow patch archaeology so exciting.”
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