Ancient artefacts found in melting snow

[cronus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23849332

Ancient artefacts found in melting snow

An Iron Age tunic is amongst the discoveries found under melting snow on Norwegian mountains.

Other findings include Neolithic arrows and bone fragments, thought to be about 6000 years old.

Snow on the Norwegian mountains, and elsewhere, is rapidly melting due to climate change, which is now unveiling a world of well preserved new discoveries.

The findings are published in two papers in the journal Antiquity.

"The new find is of great significance for dress and textile production and how these reflect the interplay between northern Europe and the Roman world," said Marianne Vedeler from the University of Oslo, Norway, who analysed the garment.

The tunic, found on the Norwegian Lendbreen glacier, was partly bleached from sun and wind exposure. It showed hard wear and tear and had been repaired with two patches.

It was made between 230 and 390 AD and is one of only a handful of tunics that exists from this period. Two different fabrics were present and the fibre tips revealed that both were made of lamb's wool or wool from adult sheep.

"The Lendbreen tunic is a first glimpse of the kind of warm clothing used by hunters frequenting the ice patches of Scandinavia in pursuit of reindeer. It had no buttons or fastenings, but was simply drawn over the head like a sweater," said Dr Vedeler.

"The patching shows that this was not the first stage of the tunic's life; indeed, the hunter who abandoned it may not have been its first owner."

The arrows and bone fragments were much older and also found in snow patches - natural areas of snow which grow when it snows and melt in the sun.

Martin Callanan of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, who authored the arrows and bone fragments paper, said: "When people lost their arrows they lost them in the snow patches."

"These are unique finds, they are a signal that something is changing up there. As snow patches are starting to melt, people are finding archaeological artefacts in all sorts of different places and they are often quite well preserved," added Mr Callanan.

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[Audley Strange]

Wake me up when they find the entrance to the hive.

[rainbow]

This is impossible, since Global Warming is a Myth. Probably put there by Climate Change Extremists!

[Tyrannical]

This is impossible, since Global Warming is a Myth. Probably put there by Climate Change Extremists!

When 6,000 year old snow melts, ask your self why there was no snow 7,000 year old snow? Why was it so damn hot 7,000 years ago?

[cronus]

This is impossible, since Global Warming is a Myth. Probably put there by Climate Change Extremists!

When 6,000 year old snow melts, ask your self why there was no snow 7,000 year old snow? Why was it so damn hot 7,000 years ago?

That's a good point. Where is the snow from the ice age melting? This is bogus. Especially the 290ad stuff....that's only 800 years yet the article tries to mislead by conflating it with the far earlier which itself is right bang in the middle of the interglacial period itself, rendering it somewhat dubious.

[Tyrannical]

The other trick climate change charlatans like to pull is to use 1850 as a baseline, which is the end of the little ice age.

[rainbow]

This is impossible, since Global Warming is a Myth. Probably put there by Climate Change Extremists!

When 6,000 year old snow melts, ask your self why there was no snow 7,000 year old snow? Why was it so damn hot 7,000 years ago?

Who said there was no snow?

[JimC]

I shall carefully bury my collection of cardigans. Hopefully, future archeologists will speculate they were worn by a brave hunter-gatherer who searched the dangerous streets of ancient Melbourne for gin and cheese, fighting off crazed gangs of zombies...

[Horwood Beer-Master]

It would appear an ancient thread dating back to the August-age has just thawed-out of a glacier...

[JimC]

It would appear an ancient thread dating back to the August-age has just thawed-out of a glacier...

If it were you, it would have been August 3 years ago!