Retreat of Norwegian ice patch reveals lost Viking-era artifacts in mountain pass
Thursday, April 16, 2020 - 09:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A team of researchers from the Innlandet County Council and NTNU University Museum in Norway and the University of Cambridge in the U.K. has found a large quantity of Viking-era artifacts in a long-lost mountain pass in Southern Norway. In their paper published in the journal Antiquity, the group describes the location of the pass, explains why it is suddenly revealing artifacts, and outlines what has been found thus far.