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OnDaFence 36M/44M
44267 posts
2/13/2018 7:01 pm

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2/14/2018 5:43 am

Those Canadians



THOSE Canadian have found a rare copper arrowhead on a remote Canadian mountain that is almost 900 years old, archaeologists have confirmed. The arrowhead, which is at the tip of a perfectly preserved antler arrow, was found sticking out of an ice patch in Canada’s Yukon Territory. The find, which was made in 2016 on an unnamed mountain, surprised experts.



“It was found near the top of a snow-capped mountain in South West Yukon,” Yukon Archaeologist Greg Hare told Fox News. “It was an incredible discovery, we really didn’t intend to be on that [ice] patch on that day."



The archaeologists were travelling in two helicopters with a documentary film crew when they noticed caribou on the ice patch they were planning to land on. Instead, the helicopter landed on a small nearby patch of snow where Senior Project Archaeologist Christian Thomas quickly spotted the arrow.



“While we were there we thought we would look around and within five minutes Chris found this massive barbed antler point sticking out of the ice patch,” said Hare.



Including the barbed antler and the copper end blade, the arrow is about 11-inches long.



The weapon was sent to the University of Ottawa’s A.E. Lalonde laboratory for radiocarbon dating, where it was found to be about 850 years old.



“This is one of the earliest examples that we have bow and arrow technology in the Yukon and it’s the earliest known example of copper use in Yukon,” Hare said. Archaeologists have recovered about 250 objects from melting ice patches in Southern Yukon, almost all of which have been bows and arrows or throwing darts.



“The advantage of the ice patch project is that most of what we’re finding has an organic element that lets us radiocarbon date it,” he added. “We will never find things like this in a lowland setting – [the arrow] is only preserved because it has been locked in the ice for basically 1,000 years,” Hare said.

OnDaFence 36M/44M

2/13/2018 7:04 pm

If I lived 900 yrs ago I would not be heading into the cold snow regions,.. I would be heading SOUTH to warm areas where there was plenty of FOOD and Heat


OnDaFence 36M/44M

2/13/2018 7:06 pm

Copper prices are up. I'll bet it is worth a good bit of money...


OnDaFence 36M/44M

2/13/2018 7:09 pm

Left by the Vikings.*** ::::drum roll:::: ***


OnDaFence 36M/44M

2/13/2018 7:11 pm

Won't find anything like that around here from our indigenous tribes


OnDaFence 36M/44M

2/13/2018 7:59 pm

    Quoting  :

Thanks Bi... seldom a story from our indigenous peoples of North America to post in here.


mral65 58M
366 posts
2/13/2018 8:14 pm

Very interesting find. I love this type of history. On a side note, there are some ice patches around here I would be quite happy to see melt. Where the hell is this global warming crap Gore promised us???


Hungr4Yungr 75M
5766 posts
2/13/2018 9:19 pm

Our North American history keeps getting older and older as more discoveries like this are made.


OnDaFence 36M/44M

2/13/2018 9:44 pm

    Quoting Hungr4Yungr:
    Our North American history keeps getting older and older as more discoveries like this are made.
It also helps that the skilled people are out there looking around and noting their finds to share with the media.


OnDaFence 36M/44M

2/13/2018 10:57 pm

    Quoting mral65:
    Very interesting find. I love this type of history. On a side note, there are some ice patches around here I would be quite happy to see melt. Where the hell is this global warming crap Gore promised us???
It's not easy getting photographic evidence to go with many stories like this one Mral. Global warming seems to be about like those pollsters from the 2016 election... must be the pollsters work the environmental story when not predicting presidential races.


jrodd 65M
4396 posts
2/14/2018 12:37 am

It may be due to global warming the artifact got exposed due to melting glaciers . So what else is in the glaciers? Probably travellers from the Russian and Siberian areas where forgotton tribes of people were living as Indians just like they did in North America. So little was known about them but they had totem poles and everything like in North America.


OnDaFence 36M/44M

2/14/2018 5:43 am

    Quoting jrodd:
    It may be due to global warming the artifact got exposed due to melting glaciers . So what else is in the glaciers? Probably travellers from the Russian and Siberian areas where forgotton tribes of people were living as Indians just like they did in North America. So little was known about them but they had totem poles and everything like in North America.
Thanks to guys like this we may just find out!