The oldest ice disappears and the Stone Age emerges from it

(sciencenorway.no)

28 points | by dxs 2 hours ago

5 comments

  • chrisco255 5 minutes ago
    What's most impressive to me is how razor sharp the slate arrowhead they show in the top photo is. I've seen photos of many stone age arrowheads but they are usually much more dull and blunted.
  • PowerElectronix 1 hour ago
    Does this mean that the ice wasn't there during the stone age?
    • chrisco255 7 minutes ago
      Yes, the early Neolithic was warmer than modern era.
    • kzrdude 29 minutes ago
      Yes: most mainland Norway ice was gone during the holocene climatic optimum (9–6 thousand years ago), and glaciers recovered since then (until approx the 20th century, when deglaciation started accelerating again).

      The climate is varying in long cycles, and the deglaciation 20 thousand years ago (last glacial maximum) was driven by a spike in summer temperatures, and this peak has already long passed. Ice ages and interglacial periods have a certain momentum to them, so it takes more than just that to go back to full ice age..

    • throwaway173738 33 minutes ago
      Whatever you put in the glacier the glacier gives back to you. Anything you leave there ends up at the bottom of it in the moraine.
  • gAI 22 minutes ago
    Including Stone Age diseases?
  • mikert89 31 minutes ago
    Hyperborea
  • dyauspitr 1 hour ago
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    • sublinear 1 hour ago
      That last sentence is how we know you've never been there. The ratio is the same as anywhere else.
      • dyauspitr 55 minutes ago
        I’ve been to Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Denmark, Finland, the British Isles, all of it really.