Published: 29 Oct 09 08:06 CET
Swedish archaeologists are marveling over a collection of 9,000 year old artifacts recently uncovered at an excavation site central Sweden.
Parts of a bow, a paddle, and the wooden shaft of an
axe are among the discoveries recently unearthed from the Stone Age settlement
Kanaljorden outside of Motala, according to local media reports.
“Totally unbelievable,” project leader Fredrik Hallgren with the
Stiftelsen Kulturmiljövård Mälardalen (‘Cultural Preservation Society of
Mälardalen’) told the local newspaper Motala & Vadstena Tidning.
All of the artifacts except for the axe blade are made of wood. The objects have
been preserved for thousands of years because a layer of peat covered the mud
in which they were found.
The discovery is unique for central Sweden, and the bow is the first of its
kind ever discovered in Sweden.
Similar bows have, however, been uncovered in Denmark.
Archaeologists working at the site had previously unearthed a femur from a
human who lived in the later Stone Age.
The wooden artifacts were found nearby and weren’t resting there by
chance.
“They are part of a burial ritual,” Hallgren told the newspaper.
The Kanaljorden settlement excavation site it located about 500 metres from
Motala’s central train station. It was used during a part of the Stone
Age known as the Mesolithic period, at which time the area around Motala was an
almost perfect place to live.
There was no agriculture in the area, however, with settlers instead surviving
by fishing, hunting, and gathering.
http://www.thelocal.se/22944/20091029/
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