03-22-2022, 04:32 PM
Ancient Viking Artifacts Emerged Beneath Melting Ice (Thanks, Climate Change)
[img=0x0]https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2020/04/glacier.jpg[/img]Members of the Secrets of the Ice team surveying the Lendbreen pass. Photo by Johan Wildhagen, Palookaville.
After ice caps and glaciers melted in Norway, archaeologists found a trove of some 800 Viking artifacts that had been frozen for up to a thousand years.
The discovery—the first of its kind in Northern Europe—suggests that the mountains were a well-used travel route, rather than a physical barrier.
This Ice Age Structure Made From the Bones of 60 Wooly Mammoths Is Baffling
[img=0x0]https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2020/03/mammoth-1024x768.jpg[/img]A 25,000-year-old structure of mammoth bones discovered in Russia. Photo: A.E. Dudin.
What’s 25,000 years old and made entirely of mammoth bones? A mysterious Ice Age structure built in Paleolithic Russia.
Under excavation since 2014, the site measures 40 feet across and features bones from 60 mammoths. Archaeologists still don’t know why or how it was built, or what it was used for
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Used to have time for this, now not so much. Both political parties have, along with outside sources, put an end to anything that in past times was eye opening. Instead the mundane drone of war drums has taken over the spotlight. Enquiring minds have all but gone to sleep, and by someone elses design.
When I was in Anchorage Alaska, it seemed anyone who was a permenent resident, or of Eskimo decent had a chunk of Mammoth tusk and or whale bone on their fireplace mantle.
The next couple decades will bring unimaginable finds as the ice releases the mysteries contained under what once was unpenetrable tons and mountains of ice and glacier. The Caveat.... the posability of releasing dormant microbe's, germs and disease long ago frozen thus needing nothing to contain them. Time would eliminate them, eons of time. If they return...? then what?
Are we going to like everything we find..? I think not, but I hope yes.... The mere vastness of all these here to-fore hidden ice covered chunks of earth now being exposed, and consequently many other pieces of dry ground doing the opposite, vanishing once again will be epic.
Will this re-write history ? It must, or we have learned nothing beyond burning books and weaponizing of history.
[img=0x0]https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2020/04/glacier.jpg[/img]Members of the Secrets of the Ice team surveying the Lendbreen pass. Photo by Johan Wildhagen, Palookaville.
After ice caps and glaciers melted in Norway, archaeologists found a trove of some 800 Viking artifacts that had been frozen for up to a thousand years.
The discovery—the first of its kind in Northern Europe—suggests that the mountains were a well-used travel route, rather than a physical barrier.
This Ice Age Structure Made From the Bones of 60 Wooly Mammoths Is Baffling
[img=0x0]https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2020/03/mammoth-1024x768.jpg[/img]A 25,000-year-old structure of mammoth bones discovered in Russia. Photo: A.E. Dudin.
What’s 25,000 years old and made entirely of mammoth bones? A mysterious Ice Age structure built in Paleolithic Russia.
Under excavation since 2014, the site measures 40 feet across and features bones from 60 mammoths. Archaeologists still don’t know why or how it was built, or what it was used for
Used to have time for this, now not so much. Both political parties have, along with outside sources, put an end to anything that in past times was eye opening. Instead the mundane drone of war drums has taken over the spotlight. Enquiring minds have all but gone to sleep, and by someone elses design.When I was in Anchorage Alaska, it seemed anyone who was a permenent resident, or of Eskimo decent had a chunk of Mammoth tusk and or whale bone on their fireplace mantle.
The next couple decades will bring unimaginable finds as the ice releases the mysteries contained under what once was unpenetrable tons and mountains of ice and glacier. The Caveat.... the posability of releasing dormant microbe's, germs and disease long ago frozen thus needing nothing to contain them. Time would eliminate them, eons of time. If they return...? then what?
Are we going to like everything we find..? I think not, but I hope yes.... The mere vastness of all these here to-fore hidden ice covered chunks of earth now being exposed, and consequently many other pieces of dry ground doing the opposite, vanishing once again will be epic.
Will this re-write history ? It must, or we have learned nothing beyond burning books and weaponizing of history.