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People were able to cross the open sea from Norway to Denmark 4,000 years ago

For the first time, a team of researchers is uncovering how this was possible.

Archaeologists' most exciting finds: Unearthed some of the oldest human bones ever found in Norway

“I was completely overwhelmed by the responsibility,” says archeologist Gaute Reitan.

Top Norwegian archaeological finds of 2023: Viking ships, gold treasures, and 4,000-year-old skeletons

Many finds are described as spectacular, unique, unusual, and sensational. But some are still more striking than others. Here are the top archaeological finds of the year.

Study finds that sharks may have been part of Stone Age Norwegian coastal diets

Porbeagle sharks supposedly taste like veal, and were a formidable opponent. Catching one may have conferred high status, according to a researcher.

Norwegian archaeology find of the year: A 4,000-year-old grave with skeletons

The grave is approximately as old as the pyramids and contained remains of at least five people.

7,000-year old fish traps excavated in Norwegian mountain lake – a race against time as the water is coming in

Four Stone Age fish traps were discovered by chance in the Norwegian mountains last summer. Archaeologists are now working against the clock to secure finds before the area is again covered in water.

What happened to the landscape and people during the Stone Age flood disaster in Eastern Norway?

Around 10.000 years ago, a ‘plug’ in the ice barrier in a massive glacial lake loosened, causing a megaflood to sweep through the landscape. Scientists are learning more about exactly what happened during this catastrophic event.

This is what a Norwegian boy looked like 8,000 years ago

The Stone Age boy has now been reconstructed using DNA analysis and modern forensic techniques.

The inner parts of the Oslofjord contains some of the most exciting traces of Stone Age people in Europe

Archaeologists are now seeing how a landscape of fjords, straits and islands attracted people in the Stone Age. Few other places in Europe lend themselves as well to studying the lives and disappearances of the Stone Age people.

The plan was to renovate a laundry room. But then bones from a 12 000 year old polar bear showed up

This is the story of how the best-preserved Ice Age polar bear in the world ended up at the Museum of Archaeology in Stavanger in the 1980s. Norway's first Stone Age people may have lived alongside this polar bear.

Ötzi-museum does not believe there are so many more ice mummies out there

What happens to artifacts in ice patches in the Norwegian mountains is not necessarily transferable to the Alps and the Ötzi-find-site, according to Andreas Putzer from the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology.

New research on 5300-year-old Ötzi suggests there could be more ice mummies out there

The 31-year-old find of the ice man from the Alps, has been studied again. While Ötzi is unique, the conditions that preserved his body are not, say the researchers.

7,000 year old fish traps discovered in the Norwegian mountains

Stone Age folks in the Norwegian mountains didn’t just hunt reindeer. A unique find from this summer reveals that they had also developed extensive fish traps in the lakes.

Who painted pictures like this on rock walls in Norway 5000-8000 years ago?

Researchers are uncovering the mysteries of rock paintings millennia after they were created. More and more paintings are being discovered.

Stone age handprint found in Norway’s northernmost county

Several pieces of rock art of human figures have also been discovered on outcrops in Kvænangsbotn, Troms og Finnmark County.

Archaeologists have found astonishingly well-preserved gear from a fisherman who lived 5,000 years ago

Stone Age harpoons found in southern Norway speak of perilous fishing. But now the traces from this time are slowly crumbling away.

Creating languages of the past for HBO’s "Beforeigners"

Researchers who created language for the new HBO hit Beforeigners couldn’t just translate Norwegian into Old Norse, 19th-century Norwegian or a Stone Age language. For one thing, how would you curse in Old Norse if you knew nothing of Christianity?

Two new sites found with Stone Age art

“The finding of several sites shows that the rock art was probably more common than we figured and it was linked to settlements,” says Jan Magne Gjerde, who discovered the figures.

Exceptional Stone Age Norwegian excavated

An 8,000-year-old human skeleton is now undergoing meticulous analysis. It’s extremely rare for such old human remains to be found in the Nordic countries because much of the region was covered in a crushing sheet of ice until 9,000 - 10,000 years ago.

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Tag: Stone Age

People were able to cross the open sea from Norway to Denmark 4,000 years ago

Archaeologists' most exciting finds: Unearthed some of the oldest human bones ever found in Norway

Top Norwegian archaeological finds of 2023: Viking ships, gold treasures, and 4,000-year-old skeletons

Study finds that sharks may have been part of Stone Age Norwegian coastal diets

Norwegian archaeology find of the year: A 4,000-year-old grave with skeletons

7,000-year old fish traps excavated in Norwegian mountain lake – a race against time as the water is coming in

What happened to the landscape and people during the Stone Age flood disaster in Eastern Norway?

This is what a Norwegian boy looked like 8,000 years ago

The inner parts of the Oslofjord contains some of the most exciting traces of Stone Age people in Europe

The plan was to renovate a laundry room. But then bones from a 12 000 year old polar bear showed up

Ötzi-museum does not believe there are so many more ice mummies out there

New research on 5300-year-old Ötzi suggests there could be more ice mummies out there

7,000 year old fish traps discovered in the Norwegian mountains

Who painted pictures like this on rock walls in Norway 5000-8000 years ago?

Stone age handprint found in Norway’s northernmost county

Archaeologists have found astonishingly well-preserved gear from a fisherman who lived 5,000 years ago

Creating languages of the past for HBO’s "Beforeigners"

Two new sites found with Stone Age art

Exceptional Stone Age Norwegian excavated

Mysterious object found in a Stone Age settlement in Norway

Items lost in the Stone Age are found in melting glaciers

Norway’s top archaeological finding in 2014

Glacier reveals 5,400-year-old Stone Age arrow

Frosty time machine coughs up arrowheads

Brewing Stone Age beer

Immigration in the Stone Age

The people who changed Norway

Low carb diets rocked in the Stone Age

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