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.
Mysterious object found in a Stone Age settlement in Norway Was this a tool? Was it used for decoration? The experts do not understand the purpose of the 6,000 year old object from the Neolithic period.
Items lost in the Stone Age are found in melting glaciers Mittens, shoes, weapons, walking sticks – lost in the high mountains of Norway thousands of years ago - are now emerging from melting ice.
Norway’s top archaeological finding in 2014 A rare Stone Age grave dazzled Norwegian archaeologists last year.
Glacier reveals 5,400-year-old Stone Age arrow The oldest artefact ever found in a Scandinavian snowdrift glacier has researchers abuzz. “We’ve never seen 5,000-year-old objects melt out of the ice before,” says an archaeologist from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Frosty time machine coughs up arrowheads When Stone Age hunters missed their targets they inadvertently turned snow patches into treasure chests.
Brewing Stone Age beer Beer enthusiasts are using a barn in Norway’s Akershus County to brew a special ale which has scientific pretensions and roots back to the dawn of human culture.
Immigration in the Stone Age Scandinavia changed dramatically when a migrant wave occured more than 4,000 years ago. People were put under pressure to change fast.
The people who changed Norway About 4,400 years ago a boat came to Norway. The people aboard had shiny weapons, a foreign culture and a new economic system based on agriculture. The country would never be the same.
Low carb diets rocked in the Stone Age The Neolithic population of Northern Europe maintained a diet based mainly on hunting and fishing even after agriculture became well established.