1,300-year-old skis found in Norway

• Published date: 09 October 2021
• Author: JERUSALEM POST STAFF
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

Another team had found the first ski on the mountain five meters away from the second in 2014. The new team waited seven years for the ice to melt, then discovered the second ski partially exposed inside the thawing ice, Science said.

Many artifacts have been discovered recently in cold, northern places like Norway amid increases in glacial melting caused by climate change, Smithsonian Magazine reported.

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The Science article noted that, while fragments of skis have been found that could be traced to as long ago as 6,000 BCE, these particular skis are fully intact, offering unique insights into how such tools were used.

The skis had been "extensively repaired," suggesting that they were valuable and would have been difficult to replace, the article said.

"The skis are handmade, not mass-produced. They have a long and individual history of wear and repair before an Iron Age skier used them together and they ended up in the ice," said Lars Pilø of Norway's...