Hidden Viking trade route emerges
from melting ice in Norway
Science Magazine,
by
Andrew Curry
Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter,
4/17/2020 8:34:41 AM
In 2011, hikers in the snowy mountains of central Norway came across a 1700-year-old wool tunic, likely belonging to a Roman-era hypothermia victim. As ice in the region has continued to melt, researchers have made hundreds of additional finds. Now, archaeologists have made their biggest discovery yet: a lost Viking trade route that may have been used for hundreds of years to ferry everything from butter to reindeer antlers to far-flung European markets.
“The Viking age is one of small-scale globalization: They’re sourcing raw materials from all over,” says Søren Michael Sindbæk, an archaeologist at Aarhus University in Denmark who was not involved with the work.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
valinva 4/17/2020 8:43:42 AM (No. 382561)
What? You mean the Vikings were able to travel on a trail that was free of ice and snow 1700 years ago? How can this be? It has never been this warm before. I'm so confused.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
tsquare 4/17/2020 8:52:34 AM (No. 382569)
The roman warming period was warmer than today...this is even more evidence that the global climate is variable, due to causes we do not understand. Interestingly, after 6 weeks of depressed (and depressing) industrial, commercial, and personal lockdown, the bellwether Moana Loa carbon dioxide concentrations are higher than last year at the same time, higher than last year’s peak, and climbing...contrary to any rational explanation.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
worried 4/17/2020 8:57:15 AM (No. 382577)
It was warmer 1700 years ago? As Ralph Wiggums would say, "unpossible"!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Bazi 4/17/2020 9:08:15 AM (No. 382588)
I prefer A.D. to the politically correct C.E. Or we could exasperate the PCers and call C.E. " Christian Era".
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jacksin5 4/17/2020 9:14:27 AM (No. 382591)
At that time, England was producing more wine than even France. But try explaining the the "Warmists" that Climate Change is a cyclic event.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
clayusmcret 4/17/2020 9:21:00 AM (No. 382598)
So melting ice is cyclical and areas covered by now melting ice used to not be ice covered. In other words, trying to convince people to collectively spend trillions of dollars to stop cyclical climate change is a sham. Got it.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 4/17/2020 10:48:45 AM (No. 382688)
science is a left wing rag..
quit subscribing about 25 years ago
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 4/17/2020 11:02:09 AM (No. 382711)
Yes, the weather varies naturally. That ancient warming wasn't caused by anybody's SUVs or coal fired power plants. It was caused by the natural variability of Earth's weather and climate.
This has been an unusually cold spring. Snow last night near KC. That is way later than most years.
I wish we had some warming, but I don't see it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
HotRod 4/17/2020 11:33:40 AM (No. 382754)
They grew grapes in Canada, which is called 'Vineland.'' Maybe they can do that again in a few years.
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#4 They were going to call the year "AM 4060", but they know many readers utilize the pagan Roman calendar (with all its months named after fake gods, emperors, and such) and would be confused.
Hence, the compromise.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
IdahoJoe 4/17/2020 12:43:22 PM (No. 382852)
This trade route formerly buried in snow was used for hundreds of years? Sounds like our weather is now warming up to what is 'normal'.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
kono 4/17/2020 1:01:45 PM (No. 382870)
Yup, #8 -- warmest winter followed by coolest spring. Kin in Omaha sent pics yesterday of the 4"+ of new snow on his deck and backyard that had accumulated before dusk. This after a day last week with temps reaching 86.
Activists would holler "climate change"! He called it "Nebraska in the springtime" -- says the heat and cold have a dramatic sumo match over top of the great plains every spring and fall. (Seems like about half the years making my June visit to Omaha from CA, I've driven through snowy conditions in eastern Wyoming or western Nebraska.)
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
retiree 4/17/2020 1:02:48 PM (No. 382872)
What say you, Al Gore?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Skeptical1 4/17/2020 1:08:17 PM (No. 382886)
When ice covered their trade route, that was a tragedy. Now when the ice melts, that's also a tragedy.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 4/17/2020 1:14:34 PM (No. 382898)
So, the wool tunic is 1700 years old, and they say the Viking trade route was likely used for hundreds of years, huh?
Wouldn't this be around the time of Jesus Christ?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 4/17/2020 2:32:40 PM (No. 383012)
They say the trade route peaked in Viking use about 1000 AD, and declined due to the Little Ice Age, which started about 1300 AD, and there was also the Black Death 50% depopulation about 1400 AD.
Apparently the wool tunic was from a much earlier time.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
or gate 4/17/2020 2:34:02 PM (No. 383014)
The way I figure it is:
Summer usually starts in may in Norway.
A half a month early, call the weather Cops.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 4/18/2020 2:27:04 AM (No. 383358)
This warming is probably caused by the COVID-19 virus. It apparently causes everything else, why not this?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
LaVallette 4/18/2020 6:17:51 AM (No. 383405)
Ergo: the earth was a lot warmer 1700 years ago than it is today and the population was much smaller, and industrialization was still more than 1500 years into the future. Massive release of the modern Gases that are conduce to human driven climate change were not even thought of yet.
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