When archaeologists recently carried out an excavation at Vinjeøra in southern Trøndelag County, they made a surprising discovery that they had only dreamed of finding.
Archaeologist and Project Manager Silje Elisabeth Fretheim made a bold claim: She said she would eat her hard hat if the settlement they were excavating at Vinjeøra wasn't a Stone Age discovery from some of the first people to settle along the Norwegian coast, around 11,500 to 10,000 years ago.
"We found small and medium-sized flint objects that we refer to as lithics and microlithics. Several had sharp edges that were so straight and parallel that they could have been made using a ruler," says Fretheim, an archaeologist at the NTNU University Museum. Archaeologists don't just dig with a shovel. Here, the top layer of soil in the excavation area is removed before the"fine digging" begins. Credit: Silje Elisabeth FretheimThe ice remained the longest in Scandinavia compared to the rest of Europe during the last Ice Age. The Norwegian coast only became free of ice around 12,500 years ago. The first people arrived in what we now know as Norway and Sweden about 1,000 years later.
A thousand years later, there was another major wave of migration, this time from the northeast. These were people who had traveled from areas around the Black Sea or Ukraine, heading north through Russia and Finland to the coast of Finnmark. They had lighter skin and their eye colors varied., which clearly differed from the techniques used by the migrants from the south. This technique eventually took over and became dominant.
"One exception is a small settlement near Foldsjøen in Malvik, which was excavated in the 1980s," Fretheim said.
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