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    Was there a Viking Age in Norway — 2000 years before the Vikings?

    Was there a Viking Age in Norway — 2000 years before the Vikings?

    In recent years discoveries by archaeologists suggest there was a Viking age prior to the one we know about- 2000 years earlier.

    In recent years, archaeologists who study Norway during the Bronze Age have discovered a great deal of new information. Some now have a completely different perspective on this period. Colleagues in Sweden and Denmark feel the same way.
    They see evidence of a first Viking Age.

    The thing is, it happened three thousand years ago. That which is today known as the Viking Age took place only a thousand years ago.

    Big ships

    People who lived in Norway 3000 years ago were far less primitive than many have imagined. They were not hunters who still lived a Stone Age kind of life.
    The ships built by Norwegians, Swedes and Danes during the Bronze Age may have had a crew of over 50 men. People from Scandinavia went to England in ships like these. They probably made their way down the great rivers in Europe.

    They may have used the ships to travel to Finnmark in northern Norway.
    And perhaps to Italy in the south.

    People were linked to the sea
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    People were linked to the sea
    Made me think about this.

    Ancient stone artifacts and other traces of human activity may be the oldest evidence yet of people living in the Americas, potentially supporting the increasingly popular notion that the first migrants to the New World came along its coasts rather than over a land bridge, a new study finds.

    When and how the Americas were first settled remains hotly debated. The longstanding prevailing theory was that migrants initially entered the New World from Beringia, the landmass that once connected Asia and North America and is now mostly submerged under the icy waters of the Bering Strait. Receding glaciers may have opened up a passage running southward from Beringia to the Americas as early as 14,800 years ago, although it was unlikely to have been traversed immediately.

    However, a small but growing body of research has suggested people were present in the Americas centuries before this ice-free corridor existed, with some radiocarbon dates hinting at sites up to nearly 15,000 years old and other less reliably dated sites going back 16,000 years, said study lead author Loren Davis, an archaeologist at Oregon State University in Corvallis. This has led some researchers to suggest the earliest migrants came in boats along the Pacific coast, living off fish, kelp and other marine resources.

    In the new study, Davis and his colleagues investigated Cooper's Ferry, an archaeological site located in the lower Salmon River canyon in western Idaho. Excavations can prove challenging -- "summer temperatures are hot, up to 120 degrees Fahrenheit, and we have to bring water from afar to our camp each week," Davis said. Moreover, "we are always on the lookout for rattlesnakes and black widow spiders."

    Over the past two summers, the scientists reached the site's bottom layers, which they expected to contain its earliest artifacts. They radiocarbon dated animal bone fragments from this layer and found that humans may have occupied the site as early as roughly 16,560 years ago.


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