Swedish archaeologists celebrate ancient find

This is a wonderful discovery.

This will help in writing a more accurate hisotry of Norrland, devoid of dogma or assumptions, but based in fact.

So what dogma and assumptions are there for this are Nemesis?

Great find, I wonder what ethnicity of people lived there.

@ Gletta

There has been dogma for years that people did not live that far north at that time, based on assumptions and no facts.

This find helps bury that dogma and changes it to a factual basis.

How did they manage to live up there with all the ice and snow before evil humans invented global warming, sorry, climate change? After all until the industrial revolution Stockholm was uninhabitable because of the 50m of snow there...... oh, I am being sarcastic!

Hi.

Nice discovery indeed.I'm hoping to see essential condition about this news.

And all sure antique knowledge will be clear after radiocarbon test.

Thanks

@ archeologist

Sensationella fynd gjordes i Tornedalen

http://www.nsd.se/nyheter/artikel.aspx?ArticleId=5031394

PAJALA. Fynd vid utgrävningar i Kaunisvaara visar att det bodde människor där för 11 000 år sedan. Det är en arkeologisk sensation.

- Nu kan sidorna i Nationalencyklopedin om inlandsisen rivas ur och brännas, säger arkeologen Olof Östlund.

De sensationella fynden har gjorts under de arkeologiska utgrävningar som görs inför Northland Resources gruvetablering.

Det som arkeologerna påträffat är två boplatser. Fynden från dessa har analyserats och tidsbestämts enligt kol-14-metoden.

11 000 år gamla

Analysen visar att dessa boplatser är 11 000 år gamla. De är 1 000 år äldre än de boplatser som 2005 visades i Kangos och som då var en sensation.

- Kvartärgeologer jag pratat med i södra Sverige har inte varit medvetna om våra fynd, inte ens det i Kangos som är 10 000 år. Redan den påverkar hur kartorna för inlandsisens bortsmältning bör ritas, men det har inte riktigt gått ut, säger Olof Östlund.

Och när iskartorna ritas om leder det också till förändringar vad gäller landhöjningen och folkvandringen.

- Då kan man börja resonera kring invandringsvägar till norra sverige och norra Norge. Människorna kom inte söderifrån längs svenska kusten. De här fynden i Kaunisvaara gör det extra tydligt.

Visning av boplatserna

Olof Östlund vill inte närmare gå in på vilka konkreta fynd som gjorts på boplatserna. Norrbottens museum planerar att under kommande vecka hålla en presskonferens vid de 11 000 år gamla boplatserna i Kaunisvaara.

- Vi kommer då att visa boplatserna. Förhoppningsvis är det så lite snö att man kan se topografin som ledde fram till fynden, säger Olof Östlund.

Av Jan Bergsten jan.bergsten@nsd.se

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0920-26 30 27

Och

http://www.nsd.se/nyheter/artikel.aspx?articleid=5032096

We have no evidence how cold it was at that time. The last glacial age had ended 1,500 years earlier so it could have been as warm as now or not who knows? After all it was much colder last century than now.

@nemesis

Dogma is simply a lack of facts. Don't take it to heart.

Great find and such an earlier date.

So does use of earlier boating technology come into play here?

More excavations would be needed to see life style and food source of these travellers.

@ sweco1

Most likely earlier boat use does come into play.

The problem is that in Sweden, due to the sheer amount of archeological sites, most archeologists are tied up excavating fesh buildings sites for construction.

Also underwater archeology in Sweden has been minimal until recently. However moves are afoot to increase the amount of underwater archeology in Sweden.

@ Davey-jo

It was not lack of facts. It was assumptions based on spurious idas, which thankfully are mostly dead in Sweden now.

I love it when things like this are discovered in Sweden. We should look around for more history.

I love to hear about finds such as these. The thing is, this is probably just the tip of the iceberg. There are probably LOTS of sites not discovered yet.

@ Karex,

In Sweden the big problem is lack of resources.

The sheer number of archeological sites in Sweden make looking for new sites far down the list of priorities.

Most archeologists in Sweden are working on construction sites performing digs before buildings are constructed. Those sites are prioritised.

In the North of Sweden there has been a long held belief that originated mostly in the 1800's that nothing was ever there. It is only in the last 30 years that dogma has been seriously challenged.

Virtually every part of the coast from sudiksval northwards has some sort of archeology if you look for it. It is the same along the major rivers in the area. Cataloging it all will be a very expensive business which will take decades.