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Hiker finds artifacts in melting ice at 1,500-year-old reindeer trap
High in Norway’s mountains, a lone hiker recently walked across a patch of retreating ice and stumbled onto a scatter of ...
The weather 4,600 feet up preserved the wooden hunting system a millennium and a half, but melting ice exposed the ancient ...
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A Hiker Discovered a Trove of Artifacts in Norway’s Melting Ice. The Site Turned Out to Be a 1,500-Year-Old Reindeer Trap
Located in the mountains of western Norway, the facility was likely used by Iron Age hunters to trap and kill wild reindeer.
Consisting of two parallel fences made of many cut wooden logs, their appearance above an ice sheet startled a local hiker.
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Hiker Discovers Iron-Age Reindeer Fence In Norway
The site includes many arrow and spearheads, hundreds of reindeer antlers, and even, curiously, an oar -- a strange find in ...
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