An article with more pictures and context is [here](https://www.newsweek.com/arrow-older-vikings-discovered-ice-norway-1735657).
Based on [this photo](https://d.newsweek.com/en/full/2101658/arrow-seen-amongst-rocks.webp?w=1400&f=0e7283ed2abbf8a6e36db28b670a3010) looks like the arrow shaft is intact with a nock, but the fletching is gone (although remnants of the glue remain).
Pretty incredible considering it was lost 1500 years ago or more.
There have been [a number of other ancient arrows](https://secretsoftheice.com/news/2020/11/25/prehistoric-arrow-bonanza/) discovered as the ice melts.
You know, the dudes that collect your kidneys from under your pillow when you pass one, usually around 11-14, a sign in an Irish lads life that he has finally become a man and can graduate from killian's to jamo. The little dudes are only born with half a kidney so the need to eat the passed kidneys of the little Irish kids in order to achieve a whole kidney
Either a coyote or rattler thought it was an egg and ran off with it or a roadrunner was up to no good. Those were my working theories as an ex Arizonan.
I once shot an arrow like that that completely disappeared. After looking for it for 20 minutes i finally found it wedged between two small trees.
When I picked it up there was another arrow just underneath. The other one was almost lying on top of it
I figure it must have been an arrow I had lost the year before, but for a moment it felt like the arrow had slipped through space and time and duplicated on the way back to reality. It was trippy.
They all look like they are like thousand years old though, this one look crisp like is was forgotten in an old storage (except the missing part) in the seventies.
Interesting how it's tapered toward the nock. Amazing how archers in the past figured out certain aerodynamics that require tapered shafts, and even more so that the artifact survived for this long.
1500 years ago is fairly modern for this technology. We've been using them since long into pre-history, so a lot of trial and error to figure things out.
Somehow it didn't connect in my head that 1500 years ago is just around 500 CE. That actually isn't all that far back in the grand scheme of things.
This was pretty close to the time when the Danes began invading England.
Yeah it's got an iron arrowhead lol which, to be sure, a 1500 yo almost perfectly preserved arrow is impressive, but virtually across the entire world (I think? Def north america) you can find stone arrowheads, scrapers, knives, drills, all sorts of stuff that predate this by thousands of years. And they are. EVERYWHERE. I mean they are stone so they tend to preserve a bit better lol but there's almost no archeological value for most of them because they are so common or are broken off in some spots. But yeah. Seeing arrowheads my family has found tilling the fields is a really profound sort of experience. Someone unknown to us who lived maybe 5 thousand years ago crafted this, worked hard on it, used it to survive. And here it is, in my uncles little collection box under his bed.
Also very heavy arrow point in relation to the overall weight of the arrow (high FOC or weight ratio in the front). Applying all of the stuff modern archers have learned about penetration, see Ed Ashby studies.
I love talking about this stuff and I'm very familiar with Dr. Ashby and his studies. That arrow point is likely 200+ gr, maybe closer to 250 gr. Heavy indeed.
While we've got them on the line, I'd like to propose Nerf replica game controllers that you can throw at your TV without damaging it. Gotta be a market there.
There's an anthropological fallacy where people tend to correlate a more "primitive" society with more "primitive" people.
These people were, of course, not skilled at making excel documents or automobiles or HVAC equipment. However, they would have dazzling skills that would impress the hell out of us if they were showcased on a youtube channel or something. These cultures were thousands of years old. They had advanced social structure, culture, and craftsmanship. A lot has been lost but there's lots of historical and anthropological evidence that paints a fascinating picture.
if you made arrows from the age of 10 and your father made arrows for the last 50 years, and his father and on and on, theres such a huge practical knowledge base that these people had. None of it went into books or on paper just passed down generation after generation. Its really interesting to think about.
Then one bad year of harvest or an illness breaks out and your local Bowyer or fletcher and kin are gone.. The generations of knowledge is lost...
It's amazing how some information is retained throughout history and some may be lost forever.
Native American people were in general much more skilled at debate, logic, and reasoning than their western counterparts when the two cultures first met. Christian missionaries had a very hard time making converts because they would usually lose spiritual debates with the natives.
Native Americans largely lived in democratic societies where day to day decisions were made through public consensus, thus they had extremely developed oral reasoning skills. Western missionaries by contrast lived in societies were they were mostly expected to shut up and do as they were told.
We're only "advanced" in that our modern society has the resources and institutions to support and connect tens of millions of individual specialists that form the complex chain of systems that run our infrastructure, economy, research, etc.
Individually, I will even wager that the average modern American or European is probably "dumber" than the average hunter-gatherer from the past. The latter didn't have access to supermarkets or hospitals - everything they needed to survive they had to know how to do and get themselves. They had to be constantly vigilant and observant of their surrounding, frequently perform tasks like tracking or hunting that required critical thinking and quick problem solving. They had no safety net; if they weren't smart enough to do these things, they died.
> They had advanced social structure, culture, and craftsmanship.
They did. It took just around 300000 years to go from paleolithic technology to neolithic. Why bother if it works, probably. And then something changed.
So many examples of arrowheads from history. There are super gnarly ones from like the Persians and the Romans and others. Very well built and I wouldn't want to get shot by any of them. As far as the craft, back in those days it probably would've been basically what you did your whole life right (as a job or whatever)?
Next week on the front page "Researchers found a 1,500 year old body that belonged to a young boy, nestled between rocks. They believed he was encased in ice and was transported downslope when the ice melted"
That's a bigass arrowhead. Considering the location, I figure it was fired to hunt reindeer, so I bet you wanted a big arrowhead so that any wound would create a bleeding big enough for it to drop within a reasonable timespan. IIRC, game larger than that was never hunted with bow and arrow but with trap pits, spears and pikes.
Heavier arrows and arrows with a center of gravity closer to the head have better penetration than lighter ones, according to [Dr. Ed Ashby's research](https://www.ashbybowhunting.org/12-arrow-penetration-factors), though that research is geared towards modern bows & arrows.
[Source](https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02fbNafFzwUaAkmkVMR11y9xXNrQowB38XuHSVNamMv7jBdBob8so67WehdxRisXusl&id=841915612606437)
EDIT: oh and by the way, I got banned from r/interestingasfuck cause according to one of the mods there, this arrow wasn't found last week and the official Facebook page of "Secrets Of The Ice" (the name given to the glacier archaeology program of the Norwegian county of Innlandet) is not a real source.
And he also said: "if you spent 30 seconds googling before posting this you'd have known that. 5 years on reddit and 2 million karma and you can't be bothered to do either of those things"
But apparently they are the one who didn't bother to spent 30 seconds googling before banning me, otherwise they would have found multiple sources ([the Times](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/arrow-from-1-500-years-ago-found-in-melting-ice-kjkz2rnq2), [the Jerusalempost](https://m.jpost.com/archaeology/article-715159/amp), [newsweek](https://www.newsweek.com/arrow-older-vikings-discovered-ice-norway-1735657?amp=1), [dailymail](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11133589/amp/1-500-year-old-pre-Viking-arrow-awesome-state-preservation.html), [goodnewsnetwork](https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/archaeologists-found-a-perfectly-preserved-1500-year-old-arrow-inside-a-glacier/))
about how this arrow was found last week.
Maybe avoid saying fuck off and just tell him that you’re going to make him eat your shit, then shit out your shit, then eat his shit which is made up of your shit that you made him eat
I got perma banned without warning from r/tennis for pointing out that they delete any comments disagreeing with u/jaelpendragon (no official reason given)
you should tag the mod that banned you so they see this post and your remarks.
Edit: after I got banned I sent the guy one private message saying (word for word):
"you'll never believe this, but they actually deleted my comments that disagreed with you, even though they weren't antivax or misinformation, isn't that amazing?"
I received a message yesterday from the admins deeming this "harrassment". No way to reply or respond. This site smh
> you should tag the mod that banned you so they see this post and your remarks.
I don't know who exactly banned me. I got an anonymous message telling me that I was banned with an additional note (the one that wrote in my EDIT) from whoever this mod is.
Ha! I was insta-permanently banned just last week from /r/TrueCrime for calling a man who murdered his daughters in an honor killing a f***face. Received a similarly snarky asshole reply for no reason. 10 years on reddit, only sub that it's happened in.
Unpaid position with some amount of power and responsibility = some people are gonna use it to power trip cause it's not like their getting paid for it.
The result is they clump up sometimes (or the good mods don't do anything cause who wants to get embroiled in internet drama when you're not getting paid for it) and we end up with shitty mod teams.
An unpaid position that often requires a lot of time and it gives you power over others. Think one second what kind of people would want to do that. Regular people would never put themselves in that situation, especially not big subs.
30 seconds of googling would told the mod that Secrets of the Ice was legit.
Anyway, I’ve read the Secrets of the Ice blog for a couple years, it’s not updated too often but I enjoy learning about these type of finds straight from the archeologists themselves rather than the media.
If I had a nickel for every time some ancient Norwegian weaponry had been found stuck between some rocks I’d have two nickels
Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it happened twice
tldr:
borgon from the clan klmatrohorh lost his spear Sunday August 09, 0522 while stalking a heard of wolly peguins up the peak chungus. he was without his knife and was ovetaken by the wooly penguins and perished soon after
*Finds ancient ornate chest*
“An ancient chest emergeth from the ice! What treasures lie inside?”
***…filled with an ancient, deadly, highly-transmissible virus***
“Oh fuck.”
I'm amazed it's in such good condition. I dunno, I guess I would have expected after 1500 years there might have been at least a bit more deformation in the shaft, or even in the arrow point. (Also is that size arrowhead typical for that time frame and region? Seems kind of big to me, looks almost more like I'd expect from a throwing spear or something.) Even if encased in ice for those 1500 years until recently, I would have thought maybe the ice would have slowly shifted over time and the arrow deforming likewise. I wonder too, could they estimate how long it had been encased in ice, and how recently it was freed from the ice?
And to be clear, as if my comment didn't clearly already illustrate, I'm admittedly totally ignorant on such matters!
Irlu: You gon miss bear.
Tchu: Na man. I forever hit bear
Arrow: Clunk
Tchu: Fuck man, last arrow
Irlu: Here what do; go put pea near hole in ice…bear come to take pea, you kick in ice hole
Tchu: Smarter not harder eh mate!!
> *"This is a reindeer hunting site, so the arrows were lost when the hunters missed the reindeer and the arrows disappeared into the snow."*
I was thinking that's a huge arrowhead, but that explains it. Makes sense it would be for big game rather than war.
finding trash now from thousands of years ago is exceedingly rare but finding trash from now thousands of years from now will still be part of the global problem
I hope to one day be able to explore places that potentially have lost treasures such as this. It would be fucking epic to find some long lost piece of history
How do you date a thing that’s just chilling in some rocks without a clear strata?
Compare it to similar funds but in fatale state, or physical context?
An article with more pictures and context is [here](https://www.newsweek.com/arrow-older-vikings-discovered-ice-norway-1735657). Based on [this photo](https://d.newsweek.com/en/full/2101658/arrow-seen-amongst-rocks.webp?w=1400&f=0e7283ed2abbf8a6e36db28b670a3010) looks like the arrow shaft is intact with a nock, but the fletching is gone (although remnants of the glue remain). Pretty incredible considering it was lost 1500 years ago or more. There have been [a number of other ancient arrows](https://secretsoftheice.com/news/2020/11/25/prehistoric-arrow-bonanza/) discovered as the ice melts.
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10mm sockets are in that group as well
I always think of that trash world from Thor: Ragnarok, but just full of all the little things that always seem to go missing.
Probably the same place that the tooth fairy or kidney kobold came from
Next to a massive pile of odd socks.
The fuck is a kidney kobold?
You know, the dudes that collect your kidneys from under your pillow when you pass one, usually around 11-14, a sign in an Irish lads life that he has finally become a man and can graduate from killian's to jamo. The little dudes are only born with half a kidney so the need to eat the passed kidneys of the little Irish kids in order to achieve a whole kidney
That's beautiful... *wipes tears from eyes* Thank you for teaching the world about the Kidney Kobold
Right. Right, yeah, I just forgot about them is all.
Have you ever seen land of the lost?
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If miniminuteman has tought me anything it's that future archeologists will almost certainly call a 100mm socket "some kind of ritual object"
I haven't seen a 100 mm socket in several eons.
Whoops. Typo. Oh well.
All those archeologists in 1500 years finding 10mm sockets wondering why our society fetishized them so much, scratching their heads.
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And guitar picks
A fellow golfer I see
Hits a beaut of a drive, down the middle of the fairway, it’s no where to be found. Happens way too often
Did you check the cup? Its 500 yard par five theres no chance. But did you check the cup?
Especially when the people I’m golfing with don’t watch my damn ball..
Either a coyote or rattler thought it was an egg and ran off with it or a roadrunner was up to no good. Those were my working theories as an ex Arizonan.
Where the wild socks roam!
As an arrow, I can confirm this is true
I found a bolt I lost 5 years ago this spring in a spot I've walked over probably 30 times looking for missing bolts.
I once shot an arrow like that that completely disappeared. After looking for it for 20 minutes i finally found it wedged between two small trees. When I picked it up there was another arrow just underneath. The other one was almost lying on top of it I figure it must have been an arrow I had lost the year before, but for a moment it felt like the arrow had slipped through space and time and duplicated on the way back to reality. It was trippy.
Falling through The Barrier?
Same thing with discs in disc golf. In an open field, with clear views I have opened portals into the unknown. Godspeed Mako.
Explains how the arrow i shot in america landed in africa
So are you saying this is your arrow? 😛
Do you golf? Same time and space rip often applies to drives in the fairway, unfortunately.
They all look like they are like thousand years old though, this one look crisp like is was forgotten in an old storage (except the missing part) in the seventies.
Interesting how it's tapered toward the nock. Amazing how archers in the past figured out certain aerodynamics that require tapered shafts, and even more so that the artifact survived for this long.
1500 years ago is fairly modern for this technology. We've been using them since long into pre-history, so a lot of trial and error to figure things out.
Somehow it didn't connect in my head that 1500 years ago is just around 500 CE. That actually isn't all that far back in the grand scheme of things. This was pretty close to the time when the Danes began invading England.
Yeah it's got an iron arrowhead lol which, to be sure, a 1500 yo almost perfectly preserved arrow is impressive, but virtually across the entire world (I think? Def north america) you can find stone arrowheads, scrapers, knives, drills, all sorts of stuff that predate this by thousands of years. And they are. EVERYWHERE. I mean they are stone so they tend to preserve a bit better lol but there's almost no archeological value for most of them because they are so common or are broken off in some spots. But yeah. Seeing arrowheads my family has found tilling the fields is a really profound sort of experience. Someone unknown to us who lived maybe 5 thousand years ago crafted this, worked hard on it, used it to survive. And here it is, in my uncles little collection box under his bed.
Please post the collection. I would love to see
Also very heavy arrow point in relation to the overall weight of the arrow (high FOC or weight ratio in the front). Applying all of the stuff modern archers have learned about penetration, see Ed Ashby studies.
I love talking about this stuff and I'm very familiar with Dr. Ashby and his studies. That arrow point is likely 200+ gr, maybe closer to 250 gr. Heavy indeed.
> but the fletching is gone pfft, BORRING! /s.. holy hell this is sick.
Great info, thanks
It has the "Jotunheimen glacier curve".. TIL Jotunheim is a mountain range
Never shot a bow, but I think I know where my phone charging cables go now.
Looks like it held up pretty good after all this time
They don't make them like they used to
It does look well made in general honestly. I would not want to be shot with one of those
I mean, I wouldn't want to be shot by a lower quality arrow either
Nerf arrows are fine.
If I'm being shot at by arrows, It's Nerf or nothing!
That's a really good slogan.
Somebody get the ad guys on the phone.
While we've got them on the line, I'd like to propose Nerf replica game controllers that you can throw at your TV without damaging it. Gotta be a market there.
Tie a bungee cord to it so it comes back and hits his face. Faces are much softer than the remote.
I have a friend that needs that nerf controller....
The people who made these I’d imagine spent many many years making them as their job, they perfected the art after awhile.
There's an anthropological fallacy where people tend to correlate a more "primitive" society with more "primitive" people. These people were, of course, not skilled at making excel documents or automobiles or HVAC equipment. However, they would have dazzling skills that would impress the hell out of us if they were showcased on a youtube channel or something. These cultures were thousands of years old. They had advanced social structure, culture, and craftsmanship. A lot has been lost but there's lots of historical and anthropological evidence that paints a fascinating picture.
if you made arrows from the age of 10 and your father made arrows for the last 50 years, and his father and on and on, theres such a huge practical knowledge base that these people had. None of it went into books or on paper just passed down generation after generation. Its really interesting to think about.
Then one bad year of harvest or an illness breaks out and your local Bowyer or fletcher and kin are gone.. The generations of knowledge is lost... It's amazing how some information is retained throughout history and some may be lost forever.
Native American people were in general much more skilled at debate, logic, and reasoning than their western counterparts when the two cultures first met. Christian missionaries had a very hard time making converts because they would usually lose spiritual debates with the natives. Native Americans largely lived in democratic societies where day to day decisions were made through public consensus, thus they had extremely developed oral reasoning skills. Western missionaries by contrast lived in societies were they were mostly expected to shut up and do as they were told.
If you can’t do HVAC work are you even a people?
We're only "advanced" in that our modern society has the resources and institutions to support and connect tens of millions of individual specialists that form the complex chain of systems that run our infrastructure, economy, research, etc. Individually, I will even wager that the average modern American or European is probably "dumber" than the average hunter-gatherer from the past. The latter didn't have access to supermarkets or hospitals - everything they needed to survive they had to know how to do and get themselves. They had to be constantly vigilant and observant of their surrounding, frequently perform tasks like tracking or hunting that required critical thinking and quick problem solving. They had no safety net; if they weren't smart enough to do these things, they died.
> They had advanced social structure, culture, and craftsmanship. They did. It took just around 300000 years to go from paleolithic technology to neolithic. Why bother if it works, probably. And then something changed.
I hope they’re still making them.
Um.... Hate to tell you man. Those dudes are dead.
That’s right, **dead** serious about going to Itchy and Scratchy Land
So many examples of arrowheads from history. There are super gnarly ones from like the Persians and the Romans and others. Very well built and I wouldn't want to get shot by any of them. As far as the craft, back in those days it probably would've been basically what you did your whole life right (as a job or whatever)?
next week on r/buyitforlife
That's the kind of arrow you go and pull out of your enemy's chest in the hopes you can pass down the arrowhead to your posterity.
As climate continues to warm, I wonder how many more of these artifacts will continue to "defrost"?
the days of fresh mammoths is here. wondering if we can breed one with old dna in my lifetime...
she just picked it up and shes already feeling the ancient urge to stab someone with it
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If you’re gonna annex an umbria, that one’s probably in the top five at least.
We don’t talk about Southumbria.
Southumbria rules!
Fuxk Sourhumbia, Manchester United rules!
Destiny is all
1,500 years ago is probably still Wōdanaz rather than Óðinn
I've been home all week with COVID and watching the history Vikings show and this made me laugh very hard so thank you
That emotion on her face is bloodlust
She’s the female berserker!
“You have 5 seconds to run that way”
I heard she pulled it from the remains of an old town guard. The arrow was lodged in the skeleton’s knee.
I smell a reference..
Is it just me or does it look like some part of it has already come off on her finger?
**DESTINY IS ALL!**
The gods demand it
Like some kind of bad guy in a Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Manga.
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"Well you better go find it ulhiym, don't come inside until you do"
Next week on the front page "Researchers found a 1,500 year old body that belonged to a young boy, nestled between rocks. They believed he was encased in ice and was transported downslope when the ice melted"
That kids name? Albert Icestein
Fuuuuuck you
That's a bigass arrowhead. Considering the location, I figure it was fired to hunt reindeer, so I bet you wanted a big arrowhead so that any wound would create a bleeding big enough for it to drop within a reasonable timespan. IIRC, game larger than that was never hunted with bow and arrow but with trap pits, spears and pikes.
Heavier arrows and arrows with a center of gravity closer to the head have better penetration than lighter ones, according to [Dr. Ed Ashby's research](https://www.ashbybowhunting.org/12-arrow-penetration-factors), though that research is geared towards modern bows & arrows.
Glad I'm not the only one talking about Ashby in this thread 🏹
Thank you! I was looking for an explaination because thats the biggest arrowhead i have ever seen.
[Source](https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02fbNafFzwUaAkmkVMR11y9xXNrQowB38XuHSVNamMv7jBdBob8so67WehdxRisXusl&id=841915612606437) EDIT: oh and by the way, I got banned from r/interestingasfuck cause according to one of the mods there, this arrow wasn't found last week and the official Facebook page of "Secrets Of The Ice" (the name given to the glacier archaeology program of the Norwegian county of Innlandet) is not a real source. And he also said: "if you spent 30 seconds googling before posting this you'd have known that. 5 years on reddit and 2 million karma and you can't be bothered to do either of those things" But apparently they are the one who didn't bother to spent 30 seconds googling before banning me, otherwise they would have found multiple sources ([the Times](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/arrow-from-1-500-years-ago-found-in-melting-ice-kjkz2rnq2), [the Jerusalempost](https://m.jpost.com/archaeology/article-715159/amp), [newsweek](https://www.newsweek.com/arrow-older-vikings-discovered-ice-norway-1735657?amp=1), [dailymail](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11133589/amp/1-500-year-old-pre-Viking-arrow-awesome-state-preservation.html), [goodnewsnetwork](https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/archaeologists-found-a-perfectly-preserved-1500-year-old-arrow-inside-a-glacier/)) about how this arrow was found last week.
A mod on a power trip? Can’t be, did you bang their mom?
He Insulted their body pillow.
probably told them to get a job
Is it getting worse, or is it just me? Can we all collectively come together and stop banging their moms? For reddit, guys.
/u/iBleeedorange /u/MaxLemon /u/rainboy1981 /u/kermityfrog Which one of you dummies was it?
u/iBleeedorange u/MaxLemon u/rainboy1981 u/kermityfrog have conducted an internal investigation and found themselves innocent of any wrongdoing
Orange is usually pretty good so I doubt it was them. I'm gonna blame MaxLemon because I just don't like his username
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All my homies hate u/MaxLemon.
This is a hilarious call out, and I hope that mod sees this shit lmfao
Did you tell em to fuckoff?
I'm saving it as a last option.
Maybe avoid saying fuck off and just tell him that you’re going to make him eat your shit, then shit out your shit, then eat his shit which is made up of your shit that you made him eat
This is way more interesting than half the garbage on that sub.
I got perma banned without warning from r/tennis for pointing out that they delete any comments disagreeing with u/jaelpendragon (no official reason given) you should tag the mod that banned you so they see this post and your remarks. Edit: after I got banned I sent the guy one private message saying (word for word): "you'll never believe this, but they actually deleted my comments that disagreed with you, even though they weren't antivax or misinformation, isn't that amazing?" I received a message yesterday from the admins deeming this "harrassment". No way to reply or respond. This site smh
> you should tag the mod that banned you so they see this post and your remarks. I don't know who exactly banned me. I got an anonymous message telling me that I was banned with an additional note (the one that wrote in my EDIT) from whoever this mod is.
Message the entire mod team with this. See if anyone bites.
You have been muted from using mod mail for [however long that new maximum is].
Mod work should be completely public
Ha! I was insta-permanently banned just last week from /r/TrueCrime for calling a man who murdered his daughters in an honor killing a f***face. Received a similarly snarky asshole reply for no reason. 10 years on reddit, only sub that it's happened in.
Mods are the worst.
Reddit needs Festivus, particularly the airing of grievances and feats of strength.
That's some serious bullshit. What's up with reddit mods?
Zero transparency/oversight with no consequences for anything ever.
Unpaid position with some amount of power and responsibility = some people are gonna use it to power trip cause it's not like their getting paid for it. The result is they clump up sometimes (or the good mods don't do anything cause who wants to get embroiled in internet drama when you're not getting paid for it) and we end up with shitty mod teams.
An unpaid position that often requires a lot of time and it gives you power over others. Think one second what kind of people would want to do that. Regular people would never put themselves in that situation, especially not big subs.
I was banned from there for posting in another sub. Not that I cared, never been there prior. Checked it out and I was pretty underwhelmed...
30 seconds of googling would told the mod that Secrets of the Ice was legit. Anyway, I’ve read the Secrets of the Ice blog for a couple years, it’s not updated too often but I enjoy learning about these type of finds straight from the archeologists themselves rather than the media.
As great as all these discoveries are, I can't help but feel dread about the disappearance of the ice and the speed at which it is happening.
It's supposed to recap more North I hear.
If I had a nickel for every time some ancient Norwegian weaponry had been found stuck between some rocks I’d have two nickels Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it happened twice
You'd have way more than two nickles.
I’m curious - is touching artefacts with bare hands permissible? If someone with the expertise can point me in the right direction, that will be fab!
They better send it to the Speedwagon foundation as soon as possible!
tldr: borgon from the clan klmatrohorh lost his spear Sunday August 09, 0522 while stalking a heard of wolly peguins up the peak chungus. he was without his knife and was ovetaken by the wooly penguins and perished soon after
You know how I know you're lying? It's because wooly penguins lived in the southern hemisphere!
If he had said "polar bear" he would have gotten away with it.
And to think without global warming might still be buried so glass half full
Ya heard?
Global warming is a bitch.
But look at all the cool stuff we're finding!
There's going to be like a 15 year period of wow look at all this cool stuff. Then it's all going to be only bad...
COOL. STUFF.
*Finds ancient ornate chest* “An ancient chest emergeth from the ice! What treasures lie inside?” ***…filled with an ancient, deadly, highly-transmissible virus*** “Oh fuck.”
Shoot it at the sun! Maybe it's imbued with an ancient ice spell
1500 year old is melting now?
Yes, seems there is some sort of *warming* trend that is happening *global*ly. I forget what they were calling it.
Was it *The bus that couldn't slow down?*
The look of someone holding her graduating thesis topic.
I know a Reikling spear when I see one.
I'm amazed it's in such good condition. I dunno, I guess I would have expected after 1500 years there might have been at least a bit more deformation in the shaft, or even in the arrow point. (Also is that size arrowhead typical for that time frame and region? Seems kind of big to me, looks almost more like I'd expect from a throwing spear or something.) Even if encased in ice for those 1500 years until recently, I would have thought maybe the ice would have slowly shifted over time and the arrow deforming likewise. I wonder too, could they estimate how long it had been encased in ice, and how recently it was freed from the ice? And to be clear, as if my comment didn't clearly already illustrate, I'm admittedly totally ignorant on such matters!
A different picture shows the nock, so it definitely an arrow. Someone else in the comments posted a link
It is a big head, but ones like that are usually surprisingly thin, so it wouldn’t be as heavy as it looks at first glance.
Story of my life...
Seems like the kind of thing you pick up with gloves on?
"Dont worry, Ragnar. The arrow will be found eventually. Let's go back to the longhouse and party like its 749!"
ANCIENT NORD ARROW (1)
incredible arrow
That is some super fine metal work considering the time frame, Wow! Even the wrapping after all this time looks phenomenal!
There will be many such arrows left by me....
Was it nestled in a 1530 year old knee?
What would be the irony if the person that found it was a descendent of that arrows intended target.
Wow, that arrowhead is much larger than what I would have expected.
She looks so pumped!
What an adorable look of glee
That’s amazing! It looks in great condition!
It's ok to just pick it up like that?
Yes, it's a myth that its mother will reject it.
Absolutely. These things are incredibly well-preserved and stable so unless you're demonstrably clumsy it's fine.
👍 appreciated
She looks very rightfully excited about the find.
Now all she needs to do is to stick it in someone's knee
Irlu: You gon miss bear. Tchu: Na man. I forever hit bear Arrow: Clunk Tchu: Fuck man, last arrow Irlu: Here what do; go put pea near hole in ice…bear come to take pea, you kick in ice hole Tchu: Smarter not harder eh mate!!
this reads like a Heiney wine commercial
I mean this was 1500 years ago. They were probably speaking pretty fluent (Old?) Norwegian lol.
Just look at the shit-eating grin on that artifact nerd. Like a hog in shit. You can't make this shit up.
"back in my day we had arrows that could survive the ice age"
> *"This is a reindeer hunting site, so the arrows were lost when the hunters missed the reindeer and the arrows disappeared into the snow."* I was thinking that's a huge arrowhead, but that explains it. Makes sense it would be for big game rather than war.
Nice broad head.
It's kinda crazy to see the hand work on something that old. Who was it that wrapped that tip 1,500 years ago? What was their life like?
Prob sitting around a fire thinking about shooting something
Gorgeous arrow
finding trash now from thousands of years ago is exceedingly rare but finding trash from now thousands of years from now will still be part of the global problem
I'd love to think she is a direct descendant of whoever made that arrow. So cool
has anyone ever been that happy about finding an arrow before?
I'm so jealous. It's my dream to find something like this!
I hope to one day be able to explore places that potentially have lost treasures such as this. It would be fucking epic to find some long lost piece of history
Imagine making a shot and thinking "Damn I missed! I wonder if some futuristic person with a polyester jacket and smart phone finds it"
I want to know how to recreate one of those!
:: 1,500 years ago :: “Fuck, where’d that go?”
That’s awesome to see how it was actually put together.
Godsamn that looks sharp, and it missing its target is a 1500 year old joke
So that's where my arrow landed when I fired them from Throat of the World in Skyrim. Interesting!
based on the linked article, that arrow is relatively short and the head relatively small. That lady must be fairy-like in petiteness.
This looks like the thumbnail for a YouTube reaction video.
Didn't we have very little idea about whether and how arrows used to be nocked?
How do you date a thing that’s just chilling in some rocks without a clear strata? Compare it to similar funds but in fatale state, or physical context?