Serious question about those bronze age arrowheads from Norway

I was reading a report from the University of Oslo about 10 arrowheads found near a glacier. They dated them to around 1500 BCE which is wild because the area was supposedly empty back then. Makes me wonder how many more artifacts are melting out of ice every year that we just miss. Has anyone here seen a similar pattern with glacier finds in other regions?

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xena5825mo ago

Hold up though, I'm not totally sold on the idea that the area was "empty" during that time. Archeologists tend to say a place was uninhabited just because they haven't found houses or graves yet, but people could have been passing through for hunting or trading without leaving a lot of permanent traces. Those arrowheads might be proof of exactly that kind of seasonal movement, not a mystery.

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wesleyflores5mo ago

Fair point, I'm with you on this one.

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simonk985mo ago

Friend of mine hikes in the Alps every summer and said he's seen stuff like bones and tools poking out of snow banks that would've been covered ten years ago. Definitely makes you wonder what else is out there waiting to melt free.

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