I just visited Iceland, Norway and Denmark and was just amazed by the history and archeological finds and preservation that is available to view. I'm fortunate to be able to trace my lineage, on both my mother's and father's side of the family back to actual places in Norway and Denmark that still hold our namesakes. The Lindholm Hoje museum in Denmark was simply amazing. It's astounding that they found a 1,000 year old tunic!
@@RegulareoldNorseBoy Go to the northern reaches of New England and the same can be true there. Almost all of the population of New England is in the southern third of it. The rest is mainly on rivers or coasts. So the forests and mountains to the north tend to be pretty empty. Especially for the northeast of the US. Though it pales in comparison to places that are truly empty. A quick look at any good light pollution map will tell you precisely where the emptiest areas are.
@@pissiole5654 Why not? The lessons of the past can be just as useful today as they were hundreds of years ago. I'm sure these people would be happy to know that a part of their culture lives on hundreds and sometimes thousands of years into the future. For years people have left things like time capsules, messages in bottles, books, tapestries, art so why wouldn't they want to be remembered?
Its crazy how different climates preserve things differently. Even one hundred year old stuff is difficult to find here in the jungles of Taiwan. Things just disintegrate in the humidity and heat.
In other words, it was much warmer in Norway 1500 years (i.e. the Roman Warm Period). In other words, climate is changing all the time (see Henrik Svensmark for the cosmic rays source of climate control). In other words, the bullying and hysteria of the climate-change constituency is stupid.
F*ck these people being pessimistic in the reply section. I agree, it would be interesting to visit. I'd love to see Athens in its prime or maybe Assyria.
For people who don't know anything about snow and freezing temperatures and ice. If you drop something in the snow, and it gets covered up by more, and more snow it will be preserved as the snow compacts over time and turns to ice. While there is surface melt on glaciers, that melt water seeps down to ground below the glacier and hastens the melting at the glacier's base as melt water flows downhill. Most objects encased in the snow will become visible when the ice is is mostly melted away to the ground. It's like slow motion sinking.
@@echtesnorwegenThat's fiction, as the video shows artefacts that were preserved, by snow and ice, that's older than the Medieval Warming Period. And the ice hadn't hasn't melted since before the MWP.
It snows and then it becomes buried deeper and deeper 🤷🏻♂️ same way as things get buried deeper into the soil, it’s not because there was less soil historically I.e. it’s wrong to suggest there was less ice then and therefor warmer than it is today. Really not that hard to work it out.
Wow how amazing and intriguing. Great work…this must be the peak of archeology - finding so many ancient artifacts. Love it! Thanks for the work you’re all doing! 👏
In other words, it was much warmer in Norway 1500 years (i.e. the Roman Warm Period). In other words, climate is changing all the time (see Henrik Svensmark for the cosmic rays source of climate control). In other words, the bullying and hysteria of the climate-change constituency is stupid.
It was once much warmer despite them not burning any fossil fuels. The one thing which should be ttaken from this is that climate change is entirely natural and that current temperatures are by no means unprecendented, as claimed by the climate alarmists.
Amazing. So glad I stumbled onto your site today. Archeology and History were always my favorite subjects.. this was truly fascinating. I know ill never get the chance to visit your new exhibit in Oslo.. would still love to see what youve discovered and hear what ever history youve gleaned from it.
The UN is full of bs. Look at beginning of video saying climate change is caused mainly by burning of fossil fuels. What was the case thousands of years ago?
@@virgilius7036 So how did these artefacts of 1000-2000 years age survive ? The tunic found would have rotted away at least, this was long before the viking age.
@@stephenhowell5611 Medieval Warm Period was warmer than now and exactly at the time Vikings were also farming in Greenland (because it was green as its name says). Then in 13-th century everything frozen with onset of Little Ice Age which we are now recovering from.
Obviously there WAS snow on these passes because the Viking horses DID wear snowshoes. Snowshoes were often used here in the gold rush days of central British Columbia, by the way. And horses wore studded horseshoes on frozen lakes. No, I'm not kidding. Our local museum has examples of both. @@virgilius7036
There was a warm period previous to the “ little ice age”. During that warm period, Vikings settled and farmed Greenland and Iceland. They sailed to the “ new world” of the Americas because the oceans in the northern hemisphere were warm enough to sail long distances…and they apparently moved around North America. Some think they explored the upper Great Lakes area, coming as far inland as central Minnesota. By about 1400, those settlements were abandoned because the climate was getting colder, crops weren’t growing, and an ice age was coming, and it did. Climate has been changing for eons, and I expect we are warming out of the “ the little ice age” ( 1250 - 1800 ce), so climate change doesn’t alarm me, I expect it. There is no “ climate crisis” as some claim, there is climate change as there should be….but because the world population is at historic levels, a changing climate affects more people. Adaptation will be required as the world warms…and then it will cool again as it has in the past. These changes take place over hundreds of years….it is a slow process.
Nice to see that there is at least one person here (including all of BBC where there are none) who knows and understands history. It is telling that this smart comment got so few upvotes when it should be the number one post under the vid.
Look up The Year Without A Summer, 536 A.D., and the Burckle Impact Megatsunami. We`re on borrowed time right now. The biggest impact of catastrophes like this, and they`re very common, is on agriculture. If Campi Flegrei erupts the way it has in the past, and it`s just one out of dozens of equally dangerous volcanoes ticking away towards their next big booms....say goodbye to billions and and all the rest of this temporary stuff. Europe will be covered in ash and the sun will be dimmed beyond belief for a very long time.
The real concern should be a repeat of 536 A.D. because it will happen at any moment. Look at what`s happening right now on the edge of Naples, Italy. Few even know what`s there. Few know about the other dozens of extremely dangerous active volcanoes or their history. They`re everywhere from Alaska to South America and from Russia to Indonesia, Japan, New Zealand, and under the seas hidden from view. The Tonga eruption should have been taken VERY seriously but it wasn`t. We should be PREPARING to save our modern world and nobody cares. You can bet the billionaires are prepared.@@danimayb
If the glacier is ~7000 years old, how does it make sense that as it recedes, older artefacts are being discovered? Wouldn't that indicate the glacier was at the same level it is today when these items were deposited in the past?
It makes sense because claimate alarmists are liars and, despite their claims to the contrary, current temperatures and rates of change are not unprecedented and are entirely natural rather than the result of human activity.
If a glacier is 7000 years old it's cold enough to snow. If it's cold enough to snow the artifacts get buried in the snowpack over time. A glacier is not a single block of ice, but rather a massive slow moving sheet that's changing shape. If you leave an object on it the object sinks slowly.
@@streuthmonkey1That's fiction. Every single prediction of mankind increasing the CO2 greenhouse effect has been shown to be true. Everything from satellite data working that the upper atmosphere is cooling whilst the lower atmosphere is warming, to the rapid increase in atmospheric water vapor etc, has been shown to be true. Your denial of basic physics and chemistry is not an excuse.
Because they have been planted, when you hear it's Norway - should be clear that it's not authenticated news or reports. They routinely lie for clout and it seems this is just another one of their propaganda videos. Norway does this often to claim some sort of global importance
Incredible. Love their work and their twitter account. Thank you for preserving this for posterity and your foresight and proactiveness!!! Its incredible how interconnected the objects they've found from every age where to the wider world!
What they don't mention is that when those artifacts were first "left" there, no ice was present either. Climate is always changing; it runs in cycles, but there have been warmer periods than the present.
@@molybdomancer195 There is difference between snow and ice. They did have winters there too. It snowed. Glaciers are a different thing. Have people never heard of the 'little ice age' of the middle ages? Temperatures dropped significantly around the time those things were dropped. Christianity was so successful in the early medieval times partly because of this. Not saying there were no Glaciers at all, but they were probably even smaller than they are nowadays.
The problem with you're climate denying theory is that you PURPOSELY leave out the UNDENIABLE FACT that they found SNOWHOES the horses were wearing at the time. meaning SNOW then, NO snow now, meaning COLDER then, warmer NOW. its as simple as that and THAT, CANT be argued.
I am not denying climate change. I was pointing out that during different periods of the past where the climate has been warmer than it is now. Climate has its' ups and downs temperature wise and the human factor is miniscule. When the horse snow shoes were initially "dropped" in that location there may have been snow on the ground, but not to the depth it was later as it was buried by subsequent snows and freezing. They have recently come to light again after possibly numerous thawings. I suggest that we don't know how many climate cycles the snowshoes have been through. This climate change thing is a very convenient way for governments to weaponize same for purposes of control of their populaces.
This earth has survived even more catastrophic conditions than we have now look at the Big Bang that wiped out the entire planet but after a very long time the planet evolved and will do again in many thousand/million years
When they say “save these for the future generations” what they ACTUALLY mean is: put them away somewhere, allow them to get lost (THOUSANDS of artefacts have gone “missing”) and only make them available to academics…….
perhaps the ice was gone or low when the Vikings passed through. The stone formations would have been difficult to build if everything was buried under ice.
Simply amazing and having the opportunity to find these items for all the world to see…so sad about the glaciers melting but maybe they will be back to protect their secrets for future exploration. Thankful for your effort and dedication
We should be glad to see the glaciers melting. It was warmer during the height of the Viking times than today. Then came the terrible middle ice age and the cold, combined with the plague, wiped out two thirds of the inhabitants of Norway so that the political structure collapsed. Maybe a little global warming is good for a bunch of creatures that came out of the African savannah.
@@streuthmonkey1Well, you're clearly trying to deny basic physics and chemistry of the CO2 greenhouse effect. You can list the reasons that motivate you to deny the science?
@@fungussa You just highlighted the problem with you alarmists. It isn't just basic physics and chemistry. You oversimplify an open system based on experiments with a closed system. You ignore the diminishing returns that CO2 has as a greenhouse gas as concentrations rise. You ignore the fact that atmospheric CO2 concentration have not driven temperature for almost the entirety of Earth's existence including all the time there has been life on Earth, just as it does not drive it now. Atmospheric CO2 concentrations have followed global average temperature with a lag of hundreds to thousands of years, during which CO2 continued to rise while temperatures dropped and vice versa. This is what is happening now. Atmopspheric CO2 concentrations are rising in response to the warming period which has coincided with the industrial era. Our current warming period began 30 years before industrialisation and it was this warming as we left the Little Ice Age which created the conditions for industrialisation to occur. Innevitable CO2 concentrations have risen in response, the vast majority of the rise being entirely natural. You ignore the fact that by far the most abundant, effective and variable greenhouse gas is water vapour. In fact just the daily variability of its effect eclipses the total effect of atmospheric CO2. You ignore the various ways that changes in solar activity effect the climate. You ignore the important role of Galactic Cosmic Rays on variability of water vapour/ liquid water in the atmosphere and thus on cloud formation and you underestimate the cooling role of clouds by at least 70%. You ignore the fact that the current rate and scale of change is not unprecendented. There have been far more rapid and greater increases in the past. For example at the end of the Pleistocene the temperature in Greenland rose 7 degrees C in 50-100 years, a far faster and greater rise than that we are currently observing. You ignore the fact that we are currently in the coolest interglacial period of our current ice age. Incomplete failed models and 50 years of failed predictions are the reason I deny the ridiculous claims the climate alarmists continue to make. Claims that get more extreme as time goes on despite less extreme ones not having come to pass. They seem to have only learnt one thing in 50 years. To make longer term predictions so they aren't alive, or at least not active in the field, when they innevitably fail.
In other words, it was much warmer in Norway 1500 years (i.e. the Roman Warm Period). In other words, climate is changing all the time (see Henrik Svensmark for the cosmic rays source of climate control). In other words, the bullying and hysteria of the climate-change constituency is stupid.
@@rushlimbaughrevolutionchannel well i would explain it to you, but with a name "rushlimbaughrevolutionchannel" i don't think you'd understand or accept it
Nothing bitter about it. The glaciers are mostly dead and we are allegedly descendants of monkeys from the savannahs of Africa. Either way, culture thrived during the Viking age (medieval warm times) and then population collapsed during the mini ice age. So certainly warm climate is good for us.
Does this mean that there was less ice in this location at an earlier point in time? Hasn't the ice advanced and receded many times over the past millenium?
@@vincentchauvet6654 You have no evidence for that. Ice melt can be extremely rapid, as can the advance of glaciers. Humans are not part of the equation.
No, this stuff would have been destroyed if it hadn't been left in a place that was permanently frozen. Now that it's melted, the clock is ticking - it will soon rot if it's not found and preserved by a museum.
It would be so awesome if someone pointed out the fact that these terrains must have been passible when the artifacts were enplaced. Probably should hit the fringes of as much boundary we can, there's undoubtedly many things surfacing. So many comments wondering what I meant. The ice sheets and passes that we used to cross were and have been changing ebbing and waning. Very noticeable in the European due to static adjustment from the unloading of ice making the land rise and fall. Personally I live around the scablands of the northern US and just under what would have been three miles of ice.. so after a 40 years of study I think it's OK to point out that that was a thourfare and as I said look the fringes everywhere..thing's to find and the question remains...I don't know the answer just making observations built on 50 years of looking.
The "viking age" is considered to be the period between AD 793 and AD 1066, during what is known as the Medieval Warm Period, which followed on from the Roman Warn Period, which followed on from the Minoan Warm Period. It's almost like life and civilisation benefit from warm weather. 🤔
@@Oinnelstan It can take tens of thousands of years for a glacier to melt. If you’re implying that the glacier suddenly vanished and somehow appeared again in the span of 1000 years then you are trippin. The glacier is what made the route an option in the first place.
@@FredrikSkievanSea levels were higher during the Medieval Warm Period. Why? Less polar ice coverage. This is consistent with paleological data from Greenland, Iceland (flora and fauna types, distribution) etc. Yes, some glaciers do seem to retreat at a leisurely pace, but as your use of the word "can" indicates, some glaciers retreat very swiftly indeed! The wheels are starting to fall off the anthropomorphically caused CO2 driven global warming nonsense. It's a cult, nothing more. For those that believe the CO2 nonsense (and wish to make a positive contribution), turn off your computers, phones etc. and disconnect from the internet, as the infrastructure required to power it all is now one of the single largest consumers of electricity in the world! Yes, all this data is but naught more than electrons. But, hey, the likelihood of my words changing your mind is just as astronomically small as yours changing mine, so we continue to polarise and tribalise until the inevitable happens. The weather is starting to warm up here in Tasmania, the grass is growing tall, the bees are abuzzing. Earth awakens from her cold slumber once more. Be well.
@@FredrikSkievan You said, "It can take tens of thousands of years for a glacier to melt." That is totally untrue, a glacier can melt in less than 100 years. Many have receded dramatically since the late 1800's. See my c*annel.
So, was there ice there on the pass 1000 years ago? Did the mountain pass used to melt each year? But between then and then and now, it got covered up by snow but then now 1000 years later the snow is receding again?
No, they walked on top of the snow/ice, that's why they find skies etc, also raindeers was up in the ice, probably to escape from insects I guess, and they where hunted, for some reason they get scared by sticks etc, so the hunters put them up to guide the animals
yes, it's getting worse. Today I open Twitter or "X" for the first time in a year, and the amount of confident stupidity in every single post was depressing and crazy-making.
@@Yowzoe No, we just know our history about Vikings farming on Greenland and vineyards in England and a little ice age. Asking ourselves what is the normal temperature of the Earth and how do you know that? Then we activate that Betz cells in the cerebral cortex and ask, does this climate change story add up or no? If it gets hotter it is 'climate change" if it gets colder it is also 'climate change'. Then we ask ourselves why are ocean front properties so expensive? If they will be flooded in a few years. You think one will be able to pick them up for next to nothing, weird isn't it? We also ask ourselves why is mainstream media beating this climate change drum so incessantly. It is in almost everything they put forth.
@@ammocan2796 I think you aren't even aware of what "the Enlightenment" is -- am I wrong? But you're in good company with all the smug morons in history, and definitely the current cult of the orange Jesus: anti-science, anti-truth, anti-human.
if they are just coming out of the ice, that means that’s the layer of ice they were in. it also means this is the exact ice level that existed when those things were dropped. Almost like the earths climate cycles, and the ice will be back someday.
@@fungussa they are in super cool videos finding historical artifacts. I'm surprised they are not out there with propane hair dryers. I heard what they said but I saw what they were doing.
@@derrick_builds They understand, unlike you, that the rapidly retreating ice is more than just about uncovering ancient artifacts, it's also a sign of the rapidly warming world.
Surely if the glaciers are melting and revealing viking artefacts from long ago that SURELY means that the earth heating up and cooling down is a completely normal thing? How else would they have got there if the glaciers didn't exist before hand?
Of course the climate does have natural variability. But the climate change that people are worried about is demonstrably man made, extremely rapid, and it will likely be far more extensive than anything humans have seen over the entire historical record. Moreover it is compounding multiple other ecological crises that we are also causing at the same time. We're setting ourselves up for a massive slow motion catastrophe.
@@dbz9393 The field of paleoclimatology has been researching that topic for a couple of decades now. For example, see "Proxy-based reconstructions of hemispheric and global surface temperature variations over the past two millennia" published in PNAS (there are many such studies, this is just an example that is open access; the IPCC has a summary of this kind of work in their big climate change reports).
So that glacier was formed after or during the Viking era. Does that mean it was warmer before that era? That would explain how the Romans could have vineyards in Britain in the first millennia AD.
Carnuntum was a large Roman trading city in todays northern Austria, due to analysis of flower pollen and cave stalactites they could figure out that the climate was 3 to 4 degrees warmer until the 2nd century AD. But they are refusing to make a propper conclusion and avoid to question the climate change agenda!
Awesome finds. People today act as if ancient people were not very smart. They will likely ignore finds like these. Life was hard but their perseverance and ingenuity paid off.
@@ronaldatkinson2051 indeed. People need to slow down on their fast judgements. The early people were more in tune with this world, and knew more about life, itself, and nature.
Correct… and this climate change bs is to distract you that the ice will be back after it melts. Don’t look into ice ages and how they form without being prepared to enter a rabbit hole.
You know, they might have walked OVER the ice. There is a reason why they found ski and other snow gear. Also, please dont expect stuff to keep being on the surface when you loose something on a glacier. It will snow and after a while its in or under the ice.
@@Sjb-on5xt that argument is utter trash and completly taken by climate change deniers. Cause you didnt checken that yourself right, but I heard thst excact number by oil industrie funded papers 😉. In fact this is wrong. Also even if it would be irrelevant. We mesure global temperatures nowdays far more accurate by satalite and wether ballons. Scientist know what they are doing and they are aware of urban heat Islands. Stop thinking you know better than actuall experts
LOL Yes but the past record of temperature comparisons comes from those heat islands. So what if the climate warms? It has been warmer than it is today many, many times. Educate yourself Leftist. @@sH-ed5yf
The guy at 5:07 said the ice had been there for 7000 years. People dropped things in the snow and did not realize it was gone, or simply could not find it, and it remained covered until the present day.
@@EinsteinsHairthey only listen to what they want to hear. The things that fit their narrative. They can't fathom that 2000 years ago, when the horse was wearing the snowshoe that was found, it was because the horse was walking ON SNOW, not on a jagged rock and boulder field. It doesn't cross their mind that they have been finding different eras of things as the snow melts because the snow built up over the centuries and now it's melting. No, they just hear their dumb friend or politician saying, ", climate change isn't real" and, lacking any critical thinking of their own, run with it.
Let me get this straight, there was an interglacial period less than a thousand years ago that was warmer then now, and allowed the vikings to cross this area on foot. I am flabbergasted.
@@emiljunvik3546 Which is why they are finding them ON TOP of the ice or on the ground where there is no ice. How are you people not understanding this?
of course it will melt. The problem is the *acceleration* of the speed of the melt because of human-caused climate change. The speed of the transition is like nothing ever before, and the earth's flora and fauna are not able to keep up, with disastrous results in about 1000 different ways for not only humans but for all living things…which our descendants will have to deal with thanks to *some* people now sticking their heads in the sand.
@willf5442 and what rate is that? There were two glacial melting surges that increased sea levels by 200 meters around 16000 to 10000 years ago. The rate now is a a few mm to cm a year depending mostly on local rise/rebound or ground sinking.
Actually it has not, possibly. maybe most of it has only been there for less than a thousand years. They recently dated the Tibetan glaciers with a new method and found that they are way younger than originally thought.
Finding these things now, as the ice melts, is this an indication that there was no ice there when our ancestors walked there? Is the ice melting an indication that we are returning to an earlier world climate?
No! There were glaciers there back then. Obviously you don’t choose such a stony route for traveling. Traveling on the ice has always been smarter. Also… It is thanks to the cold that the items were preserved. They were rather instantly frozen. Although I’m not sure exactly where this is, glaciers in Norways have existed longer than man has lived in those regions. But now they are rapidly melting.
The items were dropped on the ice, not dropped on the rocks without any ice present. We are, in fact, returning to an earlier climate in so far as the planet has been warmer in the past than today, and has been on a naturally warming cycle for 12000 years. Cries that the planet is doomed because of warming are asinine, since it's the natural cycle of the planet to warm up and cool down and has been doing so for literally hundreds of thousands of years in our current ice age cycle. The temperatures we are experiencing today would have been reached with or without human intervention, contrary to what climate crisis promoters would have you believe. They will get significantly warmer even if humanity completely abolished fossil fuels today, because the warming cycle isn't stopping. Eventually, the permafrost in the north hemisphere will thaw, releasing CO2 volumes several orders of magnitude higher than humanity has created which will dramatically increase global temperature for a while, then the cooling process will begin again.
@zummo61 What do you think they were left before the ice? It's the snow and ice at the time that preserved them, but they finally emerge now the ice is receeding.
Yeah, as the Earth spins through the cosmos, it goes through climate change. Every second of a day,the Earth is going through climate change. Nothing is stagnant except water. When England had started the Industrial Revolution, and other developed nations followed along. The seas didn't start rising. All these scientists have created this golden fleece to bilk their government for Grant loans to study for years. They need to quit reaching off the government and get a real job.
Since the ice age the far north has experienced glacial fluctuations, without the glaciers or tundra melting away. At that altitude, Vikings probably traveled over ice year-round. But we know it was definitely warmer around this time, because they were also able to settle southern coastal areas of Greenland. They farmed and kept livestock within travel distance to the ice sheet. Then it gradually grew colder until their way of life was unsustainable. That and the market for Ivory switching from Walrus to Elephant tusks eventually forced them to abandon Greenland.
Wow! It’s very sad to see the ice sheets melting. But I’m intrigued and amazed at the finds. Is there a way you can volunteer to work on such amazing projects as this??
You fail to realize that the ice sheets were not there when the viking artifacts were laid down. This means the entire global warming nonsense is indeed a scam. Are you cognizant enough to realize this?
"Sad" only because a few bad people told you to be sad. We should be glad to see the glaciers melting. It was warmer than today during the height of the Viking times. Then came the terrible mini ice age and the cold, combined with the plague, wiped out two thirds of the inhabitants of Norway so that the political structures collapsed. Maybe a little global warming is good for a bunch of creatures that came out of the African savannah.
Sad because people cannot just pack up and move from the coasts like they could do thousands of years ago.. Sad for millions more reasons - the creatures that have evolved to depend on a stable climate, including us. The displacement of hundreds of millions of people, and decline in agricultural productivity will be very ugly, and it is happening already.
@@ahaveland "creatures that have evolved to depend on a stable climate" Nope. All creatures have evolved to adapt to their surroundings. The climate has changed for all of time. In the past climate changed far quicker than it does today. Your statement is so wrong, it is not even close to being a foul ball. It is not even close to the stadium. It is like you play ball in the basement of your momma's house.
@@donaldduck830 Stupid denier. Because of our emissions, climate is changing 50x faster now than it did in the P-T extinction event 251 million years ago. That took around 50,000 years. We're doing the same in 200 years. Evolution can adapt over thousands of years, but not in a geological blink of an eye.
So the ice has been there for 7,000 yrs but the stuff under the ice is only 1,000 yrs +? That doesn’t make sense. We’re being lied too. This stuff is way, way older. Time lines don’t add up at all. The younger dryas was 12k yrs ago so this stuff would’ve been under even more ice, not the ice just being formed 7k yrs ago. It doesn’t make sense. These artifacts should be pre ice age.
It’s incredible these items have been frozen for hundreds to thousands of years, it’s remarkable and fantastic they are being discovered, interesting that the narrative is about the ice being melted so now these items are being found. Wouldn’t that mean that ice wasn’t there when they became frozen over in the first place? Ie it was just rocks and ground where these items were left that then froze over to preserve these items?
If the snow and ice were not there when items were lost they would have been exposed to the elements and deteriorated badly right after being lost. Textiles and leather items would have rotted away within a few years, shafts of arrows would have dried up or rotted quickly and not still be attached to the arrow heads. Also, there would not have been a need for horses to have snowshoes.
There would've been ice, and every year new layers of snow would've slowly been compressed to dense glacier ice. But now that the ice melts objects will obviously sink down to the ground.
Most excellent. I get the same feeling as the last guy when I find Native American artifacts on our farm. 🚜 It's been hundreds,maybe thousands of years since anyone has seen them.
I am shocked that horses walked there. Such big rocks to have to travest. Even with snow they could punch through it do to weight and get a leg stuck. Ouch! I am so excited for the finds now. Also, in Greenland ice has melted and they are finding great old stuff.
If you watch the video it does show a horse snow-shoe that was found. Maybe they were also to prevent the horses hooves going down into rock crevices. Maybe they were rock-shoes rather than snow-shoes.
That's fascinating, amazing...but also depressing. Great job preserving the history. Most of us won't save the world, but that doesn't mean u can't make a difference helping it.
Does this mean that the earth was warmer back then ? That the earth warms and cools at intervals, not as humans make it do so ? Pretty hard to argue that humans warmed the earth 500 or 1000 years ago with their minimal population at the time, burning wood that grows back, although some cultures burned coal even though they didn't know what it was.
I am pretty sure that they weren't worried about global warming during the beginning of the minimum ice age, I am surprised that anything lasted under the weight of the moving glacier as it crushed everything else, where I live in WA, around Perth, it's all sand, but up north there are dinosaur foot prints in rock formations next to the coast, it makes you wonder to what extremes that the global temperatures have changed so rapidly in the past,
@@kokobedima We're in an interglacial period of an ice age. Once we move to a greenhouse state with no permanent ice year round the ice age will be over.
@@kokobedima They are talking about the little ice age or mini ice age that Europe experienced about 700 years ago. While there were a few significant temperature drops before that, it did overall become way colder in the 14th century and stayed till the 19th century. Then it gradually started to warm up and kinda went into high speed heating shortly after.
So the country was hot and the ancient people lived there. Then it became cold and the ice covered the land forcing the people to leave. Now it's warming up again but it's a bad thing? 🤷♂️
Todays young generation will never forgive the angst & depression put on them by todays society, when they realize the world was NOT ending, all that suffering was in vain. BBC is no small voice of that choir.
It’s just such a cool feeling to see a jointed snaffle bit that looks exactly like the one I used when I rode horses in my youth, but it’s over a 1000 years old. At least there is some good news that comes from climate change, as long as we find the artifacts in time… It’s happening so fast that we are probably losing a ton of them forever. 😢
my grandfathers' barn is exactly like barns I've seen dating back hundreds of years in Norway: a walkway, horse paddocks on one side for teams (three teams, six horses) and cattle on the other side. Was up to Todd Mountain and Swedes homesteaded and their barn?? Exactly the same. A Scandinavian design 1,000 years old, like your snaffle. you worked one horse team in the a.m., one in the afternoon, one in the late afternoon so they didn't burn out.
How amazing to find all those artifacts under the melting glacier. Same is happening in other places in Europe as global temperatures rise. Perhaps there is their a quasi-cyclic climate pattern? ~1BC Roman Warm Period, ~1000AD Medieval Warm Period, 2 ,000AD Modern Warm Period.
Yes, exactly! But they are not going to tell us because that would crush their climate change agenda! There is lots of evidence that the climate on earth changes periodicly and the warm periods have always been heydays for mankind.
difficult to imagine a horse able to walk over a snowcapped mountain, with or without snowshoes. Could it be that the area was already snow-free when used for travelling?
So that's mean there wasn't ice thousands of years ago, Why do we have to worry about, or why we afraid for change might be for better be positive rathen negative
Oh wait, so 1000 years ago the glacier was at the same point it is now when someone left that reindeer fence thing? So they must have had global warming back then right?
too many gas engines and carbon foot prints 1,000 years ago caused the ice to melt so they could go put those things up there to hide until they got iced over
Doesn't this just prove that the climate was once warmer and that the change we are currently going through is simply a natural occurrence? If carbon is the basis of all life, are we right to demonise it? I use to be a strong supporter of the climate change idea, but am coming to see a different view point. Perhaps we're wrong, and the changing climate is simply a natural event in time, all be it helped along by our intervention.
The way I understand it is that it is something natural, I don't think that people really deny that, but we humans accelerate the process way too fast.
@@tastypymp1287 but we are responsible for climate change as science agrees we are even some oil companies such as bp agree that we are causing clime change. Think about the world as cup is already full of natural carbon what happens when you add to full cup it’s spills the cup will be drank out of by a natural carbon captures such as tress and coral reefs but they can only take so much out and theirs nothing to clean up the spill until the cup has been stopped being filled by us. Climate change is very much real do you want to know something that really freaky climate change once had the same united public support as the smoking ban so why is it not so popular as it used to be because of oil companies they used and improved the tactics of the smoking companies that had used them to try and stop the smoking ban do you know why the word global warming isn’t used anymore and instead was changed to climate change because oil companies thought the word climate change doesn’t sound as scary and as serious as global warming. Oil companies have been muddying the waters as so people can’t agree on tactics for dealing with climate change and on what’s causing it
I just visited Iceland, Norway and Denmark and was just amazed by the history and archeological finds and preservation that is available to view. I'm fortunate to be able to trace my lineage, on both my mother's and father's side of the family back to actual places in Norway and Denmark that still hold our namesakes. The Lindholm Hoje museum in Denmark was simply amazing. It's astounding that they found a 1,000 year old tunic!
1700 year old
Amazing what happens without slavery
There was plenty of slavery back then. The Vikings took slaves whenever they came, either for trading or to keep themselves.
I was surprised to find out that i have Swedish Norway and Denmark gens in mine when all the family names innmy family come from Britain and Scotland
@@scottbuckley6578 Denmark did huge raids and invasion of england and therefore theres some viking dna there today
We need full documentaries like this
Yes but not by the bbc (boy buggering corporation)
The landscape shown in this video is the definition of stark beauty.
Oh nah, Tribal Members,Oh nah!
Our planet. This is where you are from
Walking in the Norwegian mountains is surely something you never forget
You can be the only person for many miles
@@RegulareoldNorseBoy Go to the northern reaches of New England and the same can be true there. Almost all of the population of New England is in the southern third of it. The rest is mainly on rivers or coasts. So the forests and mountains to the north tend to be pretty empty. Especially for the northeast of the US.
Though it pales in comparison to places that are truly empty. A quick look at any good light pollution map will tell you precisely where the emptiest areas are.
Just fantastic. It's like a dream, so many artifacts lay buried so so many years ago. Unimaginable of our past culture.
Yay climate change 🎉
@@swegatron2859 : Climate change is terrible for almost everyone - but a fantastic opportunity for archaeologists!
down with artifacts in general. humans shouldn't go snooping around the past
@@swegatron2859nothing to worry about the earth has changed its climate for billions of years. You need a hug?😎😎
@@pissiole5654 Why not? The lessons of the past can be just as useful today as they were hundreds of years ago. I'm sure these people would be happy to know that a part of their culture lives on hundreds and sometimes thousands of years into the future. For years people have left things like time capsules, messages in bottles, books, tapestries, art so why wouldn't they want to be remembered?
The finds are fascinating and the museum presents them in a beautiful, artistic and dramatic setting!
I agree, those displays look incredible 👍
This is so awesome.please keep looking for artifacts of our Ancestors .its amazing that they are well preserved.thanks for the good work
Its crazy how different climates preserve things differently. Even one hundred year old stuff is difficult to find here in the jungles of Taiwan. Things just disintegrate in the humidity and heat.
Nudity is terrible for artifacts!
@@MrScovanx lol, humidity
Actually waterlogged conditions can preserve organic material. Different climates and soils preserve different things
@@Chris.in.taiwan excessive humidity causes nudity.😂
In other words, it was much warmer in Norway 1500 years (i.e. the Roman Warm Period).
In other words, climate is changing all the time (see Henrik Svensmark for the cosmic rays source of climate control).
In other words, the bullying and hysteria of the climate-change constituency is stupid.
Just imagine time travel was possible, I’d be so freaking amazing seeing how these people lived or how ancient structures were built
People inevitably mucked up the past. That's why we built this simulation. Remember?
Imagine no local anesthetic or antibiotics or sterile dentistry and no cannabis :-( ... must have been s*
You would be dead in minutes
F*ck these people being pessimistic in the reply section.
I agree, it would be interesting to visit. I'd love to see Athens in its prime or maybe Assyria.
Read a book and use your imagination?
Time travel does exist, we have a creative brain.
For people who don't know anything about snow and freezing temperatures and ice. If you drop something in the snow, and it gets covered up by more, and more snow it will be preserved as the snow compacts over time and turns to ice. While there is surface melt on glaciers, that melt water seeps down to ground below the glacier and hastens the melting at the glacier's base as melt water flows downhill. Most objects encased in the snow will become visible when the ice is is mostly melted away to the ground. It's like slow motion sinking.
In theory. But actually, it was warmer during periods in the past.
That also explains the mastadons with fresh buttercups in their teeth - the ice "wasteland" once was a temperate jungle.. @@echtesnorwegen
Not true. Learn some science.@@echtesnorwegen
@@echtesnorwegenThat's fiction, as the video shows artefacts that were preserved, by snow and ice, that's older than the Medieval Warming Period. And the ice hadn't hasn't melted since before the MWP.
@@fungussa You are totally right, cold and warm periods alternate.
So... does this mean that during viking times the ice was also that far receded?
Yes, and man made global warming is a myth.
Yes.. we are coming off an extended cooler period of the planetary cycle.
The problem some have is the speed of the warming.
@@TheBuntajames Or the narrative.
It snows and then it becomes buried deeper and deeper 🤷🏻♂️ same way as things get buried deeper into the soil, it’s not because there was less soil historically I.e. it’s wrong to suggest there was less ice then and therefor warmer than it is today. Really not that hard to work it out.
@@outnode366 what narrative?
Wow how amazing and intriguing. Great work…this must be the peak of archeology - finding so many ancient artifacts. Love it! Thanks for the work you’re all doing! 👏
This is the kind of news we need more of ❤
Yes, of course
In other words, it was much warmer in Norway 1500 years (i.e. the Roman Warm Period).
In other words, climate is changing all the time (see Henrik Svensmark for the cosmic rays source of climate control).
In other words, the bullying and hysteria of the climate-change constituency is stupid.
That is so amazing and cool! To find such a depth of artifacts from the age of the Vikings really starts your mind thinking of what once was.
I wonder what they'd think of what has happened to Europe.
And what will likely be again.
man made global warming? from 4000 years ago?
It was once much warmer despite them not burning any fossil fuels. The one thing which should be ttaken from this is that climate change is entirely natural and that current temperatures are by no means unprecendented, as claimed by the climate alarmists.
Awesome and to think in just another 1000 years and it will be back under 20M of ice
Amazing. So glad I stumbled onto your site today. Archeology and History were always my favorite subjects.. this was truly fascinating.
I know ill never get the chance to visit your new exhibit in Oslo.. would still love to see what youve discovered and hear what ever history youve gleaned from it.
Wow. I'm glad they're up there rescuing those artifacts!
Wow . That was such a cool segment. Just amazing to visualize history coming to life !
It clearly demonstrates the cyclical nature of our climate and temperature patterns. History is a great teacher.
Yes. Critical thinking. We could use more of that, instead of these emotional climate babies
The ice has "been here for 7000 years" [5:10], so all these finds were made by people living under the ice.
@@differous01 Yes because anything was constant or consistent for 7000 years. We can barely tell our history from the last 500 years let alone 7000.
The UN is full of bs. Look at beginning of video saying climate change is caused mainly by burning of fossil fuels. What was the case thousands of years ago?
@@differous01 Why yes. You've heard of cave dwellers, now we have ice dwellers! hehe
This is absolutely amazing! Thank you BBC for this treasure, which is awesome!
Have you watched Neanderthal Twilight? If not, look for it. I think you'll enjoy it.
What well trained horses the Vikings had to be able to use snow shoes ! That is pretty impressive by itself.
There was no snow or ice at this time at this altitude because the climate was in the midst of Viking Age warming.
@@virgilius7036 So how did these artefacts of 1000-2000 years age survive ? The tunic found would have rotted away at least, this was long before the viking age.
@@stephenhowell5611 Oh please, tell us you got no clue about history in so many words. The Viking age was precisely 1kya. Look it up.
@@stephenhowell5611 Medieval Warm Period was warmer than now and exactly at the time Vikings were also farming in Greenland (because it was green as its name says). Then in 13-th century everything frozen with onset of Little Ice Age which we are now recovering from.
Obviously there WAS snow on these passes because the Viking horses DID wear snowshoes. Snowshoes were often used here in the gold rush days of central British Columbia, by the way. And horses wore studded horseshoes on frozen lakes. No, I'm not kidding. Our local museum has examples of both. @@virgilius7036
My viking ancestors would be proud that their craftsmanship has stood the test of time. Skol!
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They would be ashamed that the same has happened with their descendants.
There was a warm period previous to the “ little ice age”. During that warm period, Vikings settled and farmed Greenland and Iceland. They sailed to the “ new world” of the Americas because the oceans in the northern hemisphere were warm enough to sail long distances…and they apparently moved around North America. Some think they explored the upper Great Lakes area, coming as far inland as central Minnesota. By about 1400, those settlements were abandoned because the climate was getting colder, crops weren’t growing, and an ice age was coming, and it did. Climate has been changing for eons, and I expect we are warming out of the “ the little ice age” ( 1250 - 1800 ce), so climate change doesn’t alarm me, I expect it. There is no “ climate crisis” as some claim, there is climate change as there should be….but because the world population is at historic levels, a changing climate affects more people. Adaptation will be required as the world warms…and then it will cool again as it has in the past. These changes take place over hundreds of years….it is a slow process.
Nice to see that there is at least one person here (including all of BBC where there are none) who knows and understands history.
It is telling that this smart comment got so few upvotes when it should be the number one post under the vid.
That's because they've all been brain-drycleaned into believing in evolution. @@donaldduck830
@@donaldduck830it will have got so few votes because it is too long to read fir most people these days.
Look up The Year Without A Summer, 536 A.D., and the Burckle Impact Megatsunami. We`re on borrowed time right now. The biggest impact of catastrophes like this, and they`re very common, is on agriculture. If Campi Flegrei erupts the way it has in the past, and it`s just one out of dozens of equally dangerous volcanoes ticking away towards their next big booms....say goodbye to billions and and all the rest of this temporary stuff. Europe will be covered in ash and the sun will be dimmed beyond belief for a very long time.
The real concern should be a repeat of 536 A.D. because it will happen at any moment. Look at what`s happening right now on the edge of Naples, Italy. Few even know what`s there. Few know about the other dozens of extremely dangerous active volcanoes or their history. They`re everywhere from Alaska to South America and from Russia to Indonesia, Japan, New Zealand, and under the seas hidden from view. The Tonga eruption should have been taken VERY seriously but it wasn`t. We should be PREPARING to save our modern world and nobody cares. You can bet the billionaires are prepared.@@danimayb
If the glacier is ~7000 years old, how does it make sense that as it recedes, older artefacts are being discovered? Wouldn't that indicate the glacier was at the same level it is today when these items were deposited in the past?
I'm guessing that crevices in the past, might allow the newer artifacts to drop down to the older artifacts.
It makes sense because claimate alarmists are liars and, despite their claims to the contrary, current temperatures and rates of change are not unprecedented and are entirely natural rather than the result of human activity.
If a glacier is 7000 years old it's cold enough to snow. If it's cold enough to snow the artifacts get buried in the snowpack over time. A glacier is not a single block of ice, but rather a massive slow moving sheet that's changing shape. If you leave an object on it the object sinks slowly.
You know it can be both right? Not just one or the other.@@streuthmonkey1
@@streuthmonkey1That's fiction. Every single prediction of mankind increasing the CO2 greenhouse effect has been shown to be true.
Everything from satellite data working that the upper atmosphere is cooling whilst the lower atmosphere is warming, to the rapid increase in atmospheric water vapor etc, has been shown to be true.
Your denial of basic physics and chemistry is not an excuse.
Its amazing how the artifacts they find look like they were just set there yesterday
It's a BIG freezer!
Because they have been planted, when you hear it's Norway - should be clear that it's not authenticated news or reports. They routinely lie for clout and it seems this is just another one of their propaganda videos. Norway does this often to claim some sort of global importance
Incredible. Love their work and their twitter account. Thank you for preserving this for posterity and your foresight and proactiveness!!! Its incredible how interconnected the objects they've found from every age where to the wider world!
What is their twitter account!!?
@@a.r.k7863 I found YT Channel www.youtube.com/@secretsoftheice2798 :)
What they don't mention is that when those artifacts were first "left" there, no ice was present either. Climate is always changing; it runs in cycles, but there have been warmer periods than the present.
The snow shoes for the horses would say you’re wrong
@@molybdomancer195 There is difference between snow and ice. They did have winters there too. It snowed. Glaciers are a different thing. Have people never heard of the 'little ice age' of the middle ages? Temperatures dropped significantly around the time those things were dropped. Christianity was so successful in the early medieval times partly because of this. Not saying there were no Glaciers at all, but they were probably even smaller than they are nowadays.
The problem with you're climate denying theory is that you PURPOSELY leave out the UNDENIABLE FACT that they found SNOWHOES the horses were wearing at the time. meaning SNOW then, NO snow now, meaning COLDER then, warmer NOW. its as simple as that and THAT, CANT be argued.
I am not denying climate change. I was pointing out that during different periods of the past where the climate has been warmer than it is now. Climate has its' ups and downs temperature wise and the human factor is miniscule. When the horse snow shoes were initially "dropped" in that location there may have been snow on the ground, but not to the depth it was later as it was buried by subsequent snows and freezing. They have recently come to light again after possibly numerous thawings. I suggest that we don't know how many climate cycles the snowshoes have been through. This climate change thing is a very convenient way for governments to weaponize same for purposes of control of their populaces.
@@kingranches There is snow there now moron.
If these were under the snow, that means in the past there must have been less snow than has melted recently.
I keep saying this too! We've even found modern items that were lost such as aeroplanes which makes the current narrative even more ridiculous.
These were under the snow but above the ice cap, you see. There’s a big difference.
This earth has survived even more catastrophic conditions than we have now look at the Big Bang that wiped out the entire planet but after a very long time the planet evolved and will do again in many thousand/million years
When they say “save these for the future generations” what they ACTUALLY mean is: put them away somewhere, allow them to get lost (THOUSANDS of artefacts have gone “missing”) and only make them available to academics…….
Bingo
I'm shocked that the BBC missed the misspelling of "artifacts" in their title of this video. Shocking.
They're spelling it the British way apparently. I had to look that one up as I've never seen it spelled (or spelt) that way.
@@buckodonnghaile4309 Thanks for being patient with me. I was just having a little fun.
@@pawlowski6132 cheers, I'm just daft on a Sunday night and amazed that the Brits can't spell their own language
Wow, a fascinating and thought-provoking video, full of wonder !
perhaps the ice was gone or low when the Vikings passed through. The stone formations would have been difficult to build if everything was buried under ice.
Obviously, the glaciers weren't there then. Which kind of pokes holes in man made climate change. But we won't mention that.
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This made my heart sing. What wonderful work these people are doing for our future generations. Thank you
Simply amazing and having the opportunity to find these items for all the world to see…so sad about the glaciers melting but maybe they will be back to protect their secrets for future exploration. Thankful for your effort and dedication
We should be glad to see the glaciers melting. It was warmer during the height of the Viking times than today. Then came the terrible middle ice age and the cold, combined with the plague, wiped out two thirds of the inhabitants of Norway so that the political structure collapsed. Maybe a little global warming is good for a bunch of creatures that came out of the African savannah.
Why are naturally occuring variations in temperature, and thus ice levels, sad?
@@streuthmonkey1Well, you're clearly trying to deny basic physics and chemistry of the CO2 greenhouse effect.
You can list the reasons that motivate you to deny the science?
@@fungussa You just highlighted the problem with you alarmists. It isn't just basic physics and chemistry. You oversimplify an open system based on experiments with a closed system.
You ignore the diminishing returns that CO2 has as a greenhouse gas as concentrations rise.
You ignore the fact that atmospheric CO2 concentration have not driven temperature for almost the entirety of Earth's existence including all the time there has been life on Earth, just as it does not drive it now. Atmospheric CO2 concentrations have followed global average temperature with a lag of hundreds to thousands of years, during which CO2 continued to rise while temperatures dropped and vice versa.
This is what is happening now. Atmopspheric CO2 concentrations are rising in response to the warming period which has coincided with the industrial era. Our current warming period began 30 years before industrialisation and it was this warming as we left the Little Ice Age which created the conditions for industrialisation to occur. Innevitable CO2 concentrations have risen in response, the vast majority of the rise being entirely natural.
You ignore the fact that by far the most abundant, effective and variable greenhouse gas is water vapour. In fact just the daily variability of its effect eclipses the total effect of atmospheric CO2.
You ignore the various ways that changes in solar activity effect the climate. You ignore the important role of Galactic Cosmic Rays on variability of water vapour/ liquid water in the atmosphere and thus on cloud formation and you underestimate the cooling role of clouds by at least 70%.
You ignore the fact that the current rate and scale of change is not unprecendented. There have been far more rapid and greater increases in the past. For example at the end of the Pleistocene the temperature in Greenland rose 7 degrees C in 50-100 years, a far faster and greater rise than that we are currently observing.
You ignore the fact that we are currently in the coolest interglacial period of our current ice age.
Incomplete failed models and 50 years of failed predictions are the reason I deny the ridiculous claims the climate alarmists continue to make. Claims that get more extreme as time goes on despite less extreme ones not having come to pass. They seem to have only learnt one thing in 50 years. To make longer term predictions so they aren't alive, or at least not active in the field, when they innevitably fail.
In other words, it was much warmer in Norway 1500 years (i.e. the Roman Warm Period).
In other words, climate is changing all the time (see Henrik Svensmark for the cosmic rays source of climate control).
In other words, the bullying and hysteria of the climate-change constituency is stupid.
Wow, just fascinating finds.. Great work guys, thanks for sharing!
Absolutely amazing! Well done, and I can only imagine the excitement of finding these items ✨️
The guy at the end is right, it's very bittersweet.
You lose the ice, and gain artifacts.
Why is it bittersweet?
@@rushlimbaughrevolutionchannel well i would explain it to you, but with a name "rushlimbaughrevolutionchannel" i don't think you'd understand or accept it
Nothing bitter about it. The glaciers are mostly dead and we are allegedly descendants of monkeys from the savannahs of Africa. Either way, culture thrived during the Viking age (medieval warm times) and then population collapsed during the mini ice age. So certainly warm climate is good for us.
LOL! Insanity...
This proves it was warmer 2000 years ago.
Does this mean that there was less ice in this location at an earlier point in time? Hasn't the ice advanced and receded many times over the past millenium?
Correct
@@vincentchauvet6654 You have no evidence for that. Ice melt can be extremely rapid, as can the advance of glaciers. Humans are not part of the equation.
No, this stuff would have been destroyed if it hadn't been left in a place that was permanently frozen. Now that it's melted, the clock is ticking - it will soon rot if it's not found and preserved by a museum.
ssshhh you may get cancelled for not blindly following the narrative
No. They walked over the snow and ice, which is why they found snow shoes for horses.
So the Viking were there before the glaciers and now they're melting again. Me tinks
It would be so awesome if someone pointed out the fact that these terrains must have been passible when the artifacts were enplaced.
Probably should hit the fringes of as much boundary we can, there's undoubtedly many things surfacing.
So many comments wondering what I meant.
The ice sheets and passes that we used to cross were and have been changing ebbing and waning.
Very noticeable in the European due to static adjustment from the unloading of ice making the land rise and fall.
Personally I live around the scablands of the northern US and just under what would have been three miles of ice.. so after a 40 years of study I think it's OK to point out that that was a thourfare and as I said look the fringes everywhere..thing's to find and the question remains...I don't know the answer just making observations built on 50 years of looking.
What? What’s your point?
I get his point perfectly, and I'm glad he said it, because I was thinking the same thing.
They do say it was a regular path, like the "Vikings' highway."
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@@mwallace2922 Aces
Walking on those stony slopes is absolutely brutal...
So during the Viking age it was a lot warmer then it got colder and now it is getting warmer again.
No one is saying there weren't any ice there during the viking age. 3:59 shows what it would've looked like back then.
The "viking age" is considered to be the period between AD 793 and AD 1066, during what is known as the Medieval Warm Period, which followed on from the Roman Warn Period, which followed on from the Minoan Warm Period. It's almost like life and civilisation benefit from warm weather. 🤔
@@Oinnelstan It can take tens of thousands of years for a glacier to melt. If you’re implying that the glacier suddenly vanished and somehow appeared again in the span of 1000 years then you are trippin. The glacier is what made the route an option in the first place.
@@FredrikSkievanSea levels were higher during the Medieval Warm Period. Why? Less polar ice coverage. This is consistent with paleological data from Greenland, Iceland (flora and fauna types, distribution) etc.
Yes, some glaciers do seem to retreat at a leisurely pace, but as your use of the word "can" indicates, some glaciers retreat very swiftly indeed!
The wheels are starting to fall off the anthropomorphically caused CO2 driven global warming nonsense. It's a cult, nothing more.
For those that believe the CO2 nonsense (and wish to make a positive contribution), turn off your computers, phones etc. and disconnect from the internet, as the infrastructure required to power it all is now one of the single largest consumers of electricity in the world! Yes, all this data is but naught more than electrons.
But, hey, the likelihood of my words changing your mind is just as astronomically small as yours changing mine, so we continue to polarise and tribalise until the inevitable happens.
The weather is starting to warm up here in Tasmania, the grass is growing tall, the bees are abuzzing. Earth awakens from her cold slumber once more.
Be well.
@@FredrikSkievan You said, "It can take tens of thousands of years for a glacier to melt." That is totally untrue, a glacier can melt in less than 100 years. Many have receded dramatically since the late 1800's. See my c*annel.
It's terrifying, but the retreat of the glaciers is uncovering a wealth of fascinating history.
glaciers move back and forth... it is not really surprising. the myth of man made climate change is exposed as a fraud once again
Not so long ago the ice was not in the places we have become used to seeing it.
What is terrifying is how many people have fallen for the global warming scam.
The tree line used to be closer to the north pole. Terrifying.
Why is this terrifying?
So, was there ice there on the pass 1000 years ago? Did the mountain pass used to melt each year? But between then and then and now, it got covered up by snow but then now 1000 years later the snow is receding again?
I am thinking the same. 😊
In a perfect carbon balanced world Norway is to be permanently covered in ice... for the good of the planet you bigots
Just like the past 4 Ice Ages that came and went… climate changes occur without impact by mankind.
No, they walked on top of the snow/ice, that's why they find skies etc, also raindeers was up in the ice, probably to escape from insects I guess, and they where hunted, for some reason they get scared by sticks etc, so the hunters put them up to guide the animals
Human induced climate change is bs.
Wow, thank you for this and what this team does. Amazing.
The amount of comments thinking they can disprove climate change because the items were found at the 'bottom" of the melting ice has me 💀
yes, it's getting worse. Today I open Twitter or "X" for the first time in a year, and the amount of confident stupidity in every single post was depressing and crazy-making.
@@Yowzoe No, we just know our history about Vikings farming on Greenland and vineyards in England and a little ice age. Asking ourselves what is the normal temperature of the Earth and how do you know that? Then we activate that Betz cells in the cerebral cortex and ask, does this climate change story add up or no? If it gets hotter it is 'climate change" if it gets colder it is also 'climate change'. Then we ask ourselves why are ocean front properties so expensive? If they will be flooded in a few years. You think one will be able to pick them up for next to nothing, weird isn't it? We also ask ourselves why is mainstream media beating this climate change drum so incessantly. It is in almost everything they put forth.
@@nicobrits5111 I think you should get off X and listen to the scientists. You may first have to learn about the scientific method.
@@ammocan2796 You'd fit in very well in pre-Enlightenment times.
@@ammocan2796 I think you aren't even aware of what "the Enlightenment" is -- am I wrong? But you're in good company with all the smug morons in history, and definitely the current cult of the orange Jesus: anti-science, anti-truth, anti-human.
if they are just coming out of the ice, that means that’s the layer of ice they were in. it also means this is the exact ice level that existed when those things were dropped. Almost like the earths climate cycles, and the ice will be back someday.
This demonstrates that the temperature at the time of the Vikings was a lot higher than today.
good point!
So the Vikings had global warming too? Interesting.
What an awesome time to be out there enjoying the ice melting and finding history. Keep up the good work team.
As they said, they don't 'enjoy the ice melting'
@@fungussa they are in super cool videos finding historical artifacts. I'm surprised they are not out there with propane hair dryers. I heard what they said but I saw what they were doing.
@@derrick_builds They understand, unlike you, that the rapidly retreating ice is more than just about uncovering ancient artifacts, it's also a sign of the rapidly warming world.
@@fungussa they could stay at home and watch ice melt. They are there to hunt artifacts.
They are not 'hunting' artefacts, they are saving them@@derrick_builds , small difference.
Incredible finds. Loved the way the artefacts were displayed.
I was getting sick of the news... This is nice...
Think of those 'who are the news' RIP
@@universaltruth9988 i do... That is why im sick... Sad...
Surely if the glaciers are melting and revealing viking artefacts from long ago that SURELY means that the earth heating up and cooling down is a completely normal thing? How else would they have got there if the glaciers didn't exist before hand?
Of course the climate does have natural variability. But the climate change that people are worried about is demonstrably man made, extremely rapid, and it will likely be far more extensive than anything humans have seen over the entire historical record. Moreover it is compounding multiple other ecological crises that we are also causing at the same time. We're setting ourselves up for a massive slow motion catastrophe.
@@jellekastelein7316 how do we know the climate change wasn't rapid 1000 years ago?
@@dbz9393 The field of paleoclimatology has been researching that topic for a couple of decades now. For example, see "Proxy-based reconstructions of hemispheric and global surface temperature variations over the past two millennia" published in PNAS (there are many such studies, this is just an example that is open access; the IPCC has a summary of this kind of work in their big climate change reports).
Im surprised they didnt take metal detectors with them, They must have missed so much viking treasure .......
So that glacier was formed after or during the Viking era. Does that mean it was warmer before that era? That would explain how the Romans could have vineyards in Britain in the first millennia AD.
Carnuntum was a large Roman trading city in todays northern Austria, due to analysis of flower pollen and cave stalactites they could figure out that the climate was 3 to 4 degrees warmer until the 2nd century AD. But they are refusing to make a propper conclusion and avoid to question the climate change agenda!
@@rolandjung9337there is no agenda
As a viking reenactor Im excited to learn more about what they found!
So, do you break into houses, kill the strongest and take the rest for slaves?
Awesome finds. People today act as if ancient people were not very smart. They will likely ignore finds like these. Life was hard but their perseverance and ingenuity paid off.
@@ronaldatkinson2051 indeed. People need to slow down on their fast judgements. The early people were more in tune with this world, and knew more about life, itself, and nature.
So this is a cycle of weather and years of ago the Vikings did not live under the ice.
Greta Thhuneberg is punching the air right now
Correct… and this climate change bs is to distract you that the ice will be back after it melts. Don’t look into ice ages and how they form without being prepared to enter a rabbit hole.
They paid high taxes and gave up their freedoms to stop climate change...
You know, they might have walked OVER the ice. There is a reason why they found ski and other snow gear. Also, please dont expect stuff to keep being on the surface when you loose something on a glacier. It will snow and after a while its in or under the ice.
So there was a path the Vikings used only now being revealed from the melting ice. Doesn't that prove it was warmer in the past?
In this area. A bit yes. But dont confuse local warm periods and global temperatures
@@sH-ed5yf 75% of global weather stations are inside urban heat islands.
@@Sjb-on5xt that argument is utter trash and completly taken by climate change deniers. Cause you didnt checken that yourself right, but I heard thst excact number by oil industrie funded papers 😉.
In fact this is wrong. Also even if it would be irrelevant. We mesure global temperatures nowdays far more accurate by satalite and wether ballons.
Scientist know what they are doing and they are aware of urban heat Islands.
Stop thinking you know better than actuall experts
LOL Yes but the past record of temperature comparisons comes from those heat islands. So what if the climate warms? It has been warmer than it is today many, many times. Educate yourself Leftist. @@sH-ed5yf
@@sH-ed5yf No the same has been found at many locations all over the world. This is not a unique occurrence at all.
THANK you for this very nice video. I hope more vids like this are posted.
Wow, lovely little docu. ❤
Wow do it warmer 2000 years ago than today. Thanks BBC.
The guy at 5:07 said the ice had been there for 7000 years. People dropped things in the snow and did not realize it was gone, or simply could not find it, and it remained covered until the present day.
@@EinsteinsHairthey only listen to what they want to hear. The things that fit their narrative. They can't fathom that 2000 years ago, when the horse was wearing the snowshoe that was found, it was because the horse was walking ON SNOW, not on a jagged rock and boulder field. It doesn't cross their mind that they have been finding different eras of things as the snow melts because the snow built up over the centuries and now it's melting.
No, they just hear their dumb friend or politician saying, ", climate change isn't real" and, lacking any critical thinking of their own, run with it.
These finds are fascinating to me.
Imagine what has been lost or will never be found
Let me get this straight, there was an interglacial period less than a thousand years ago that was warmer then now, and allowed the vikings to cross this area on foot. I am flabbergasted.
Yes. The earth's temperature has fluctuated wildly for billions of years but this time its our fault now pay the government more money to stop it 😂
LOL@@jasonotto9126
Did they say that? Idiot
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I didn’t know that Vikings lived under glaciers.
No, but they walked on top of them all the time. Do you live in Florida or something that you have never experienced dropping something in snow?
@@TruthFictionWooden skies doesn’t sink through a glacier. They would lie on top of the ice when it melts.
@@emiljunvik3546 Which is why they are finding them ON TOP of the ice or on the ground where there is no ice. How are you people not understanding this?
Please turn of the annoying piano music. It's hard to hear what anyone is saying
The snow has been there for 7,000 years which is impressive. But what made them think it would never melt, ever?
of course it will melt. The problem is the *acceleration* of the speed of the melt because of human-caused climate change. The speed of the transition is like nothing ever before, and the earth's flora and fauna are not able to keep up, with disastrous results in about 1000 different ways for not only humans but for all living things…which our descendants will have to deal with thanks to *some* people now sticking their heads in the sand.
Every 12,000 years for millenia
@willf5442 and what rate is that? There were two glacial melting surges that increased sea levels by 200 meters around 16000 to 10000 years ago. The rate now is a a few mm to cm a year depending mostly on local rise/rebound or ground sinking.
Actually it has not, possibly. maybe most of it has only been there for less than a thousand years. They recently dated the Tibetan glaciers with a new method and found that they are way younger than originally thought.
@@willf5442 Slower than in the past. What is there to worry about?
Finding these things now, as the ice melts, is this an indication that there was no ice there when our ancestors walked there? Is the ice melting an indication that we are returning to an earlier world climate?
Yes my friend, this fact seems escape everyone.
No! There were glaciers there back then. Obviously you don’t choose such a stony route for traveling. Traveling on the ice has always been smarter. Also… It is thanks to the cold that the items were preserved. They were rather instantly frozen. Although I’m not sure exactly where this is, glaciers in Norways have existed longer than man has lived in those regions. But now they are rapidly melting.
The items were dropped on the ice, not dropped on the rocks without any ice present. We are, in fact, returning to an earlier climate in so far as the planet has been warmer in the past than today, and has been on a naturally warming cycle for 12000 years. Cries that the planet is doomed because of warming are asinine, since it's the natural cycle of the planet to warm up and cool down and has been doing so for literally hundreds of thousands of years in our current ice age cycle. The temperatures we are experiencing today would have been reached with or without human intervention, contrary to what climate crisis promoters would have you believe. They will get significantly warmer even if humanity completely abolished fossil fuels today, because the warming cycle isn't stopping. Eventually, the permafrost in the north hemisphere will thaw, releasing CO2 volumes several orders of magnitude higher than humanity has created which will dramatically increase global temperature for a while, then the cooling process will begin again.
Idiot
Next,try to convince yourself that the vikinks farmed under the ice in greenland
Amazing to watch. Thank you
Hello 👋 how are you doing today..?
Can you imagine what lies beneath Antartica?
Oil
Fossils. And temples to the old ones. Don't even think about excavating there.
Hopefully you have saved the GPS location of each item for a macro analysis. Very good work.
Thanks for those people we are alive today
Interesting that many of the artifacts were there before the ice, so that is indicative of some significant climate shifts in the past.
Try to get that across to the climate nut bags.
@zummo61
What do you think they were left before the ice? It's the snow and ice at the time that preserved them, but they finally emerge now the ice is receeding.
That tells you it has been warmer climate than now.
Yeah, as the Earth spins through the cosmos, it goes through climate change.
Every second of a day,the Earth is going through climate change.
Nothing is stagnant except water.
When England had started the Industrial Revolution, and other developed nations followed along. The seas didn't start rising.
All these scientists have created this golden fleece to bilk their government for Grant loans to study for years.
They need to quit reaching off the government and get a real job.
Good job BBC on reporting this. As a yank I truly enjoy your reporting and the news your share it broadens my world.
Wonderful. So was the ice not there when the ancients dropped these items, or did they fall into the snow? Was it warmer then?
Obviously they were dropped in the snow and became buried. For example, 1 of the items was a show shoe.
so, how do some artefacts end up under rocks?@@RPGreg2600
It was relatively warmer and then covered by glacier. Climate should be evaluated over very long periods of time. Fluctuations are normal.
Since the ice age the far north has experienced glacial fluctuations, without the glaciers or tundra melting away. At that altitude, Vikings probably traveled over ice year-round. But we know it was definitely warmer around this time, because they were also able to settle southern coastal areas of Greenland. They farmed and kept livestock within travel distance to the ice sheet. Then it gradually grew colder until their way of life was unsustainable. That and the market for Ivory switching from Walrus to Elephant tusks eventually forced them to abandon Greenland.
Glaciers are made from layers of compressed snow. So they would’ve dropped it on the top layer, and then it would get more and more buried.
Wow! It’s very sad to see the ice sheets melting. But I’m intrigued and amazed at the finds. Is there a way you can volunteer to work on such amazing projects as this??
You fail to realize that the ice sheets were not there when the viking artifacts were laid down.
This means the entire global warming nonsense is indeed a scam. Are you cognizant enough to realize this?
"Sad" only because a few bad people told you to be sad. We should be glad to see the glaciers melting. It was warmer than today during the height of the Viking times. Then came the terrible mini ice age and the cold, combined with the plague, wiped out two thirds of the inhabitants of Norway so that the political structures collapsed. Maybe a little global warming is good for a bunch of creatures that came out of the African savannah.
Sad because people cannot just pack up and move from the coasts like they could do thousands of years ago..
Sad for millions more reasons - the creatures that have evolved to depend on a stable climate, including us.
The displacement of hundreds of millions of people, and decline in agricultural productivity will be very ugly, and it is happening already.
@@ahaveland "creatures that have evolved to depend on a stable climate"
Nope. All creatures have evolved to adapt to their surroundings.
The climate has changed for all of time.
In the past climate changed far quicker than it does today.
Your statement is so wrong, it is not even close to being a foul ball. It is not even close to the stadium. It is like you play ball in the basement of your momma's house.
@@donaldduck830 Stupid denier. Because of our emissions, climate is changing 50x faster now than it did in the P-T extinction event 251 million years ago.
That took around 50,000 years. We're doing the same in 200 years.
Evolution can adapt over thousands of years, but not in a geological blink of an eye.
So the ice has been there for 7,000 yrs but the stuff under the ice is only 1,000 yrs +? That doesn’t make sense. We’re being lied too. This stuff is way, way older. Time lines don’t add up at all. The younger dryas was 12k yrs ago so this stuff would’ve been under even more ice, not the ice just being formed 7k yrs ago. It doesn’t make sense. These artifacts should be pre ice age.
Yep. They’re at the stage where they can’t announce any new discoveries without contradicting their narrative
It’s incredible these items have been frozen for hundreds to thousands of years, it’s remarkable and fantastic they are being discovered, interesting that the narrative is about the ice being melted so now these items are being found. Wouldn’t that mean that ice wasn’t there when they became frozen over in the first place? Ie it was just rocks and ground where these items were left that then froze over to preserve these items?
If the snow and ice were not there when items were lost they would have been exposed to the elements and deteriorated badly right after being lost. Textiles and leather items would have rotted away within a few years, shafts of arrows would have dried up or rotted quickly and not still be attached to the arrow heads. Also, there would not have been a need for horses to have snowshoes.
There would've been ice, and every year new layers of snow would've slowly been compressed to dense glacier ice. But now that the ice melts objects will obviously sink down to the ground.
Most excellent. I get the same feeling as the last guy when I find Native American artifacts on our farm. 🚜 It's been hundreds,maybe thousands of years since anyone has seen them.
Heart breaking and fascinating all at once.
Warmest day on record for my area yesterday was 1938.
That's interesting since the warmest decade on record over the past 150 years was the 1930's. 👍
Emphasis 'on record'.
Which is entirely meaningless.
Hottest average earth temperature was 2022. Before that 2021. Weather is local.
@@justayoutuber1906 , on record?
I am shocked that horses walked there. Such big rocks to have to travest. Even with snow they could punch through it do to weight and get a leg stuck. Ouch!
I am so excited for the finds now. Also, in Greenland ice has melted and they are finding great old stuff.
They'd be small horses by modern standards.
Small, sturdy beasts, and experienced riders. Slow and steady
Under the snow there was ice so it would've been very easy to traverse.
The horses had skis too.
If you watch the video it does show a horse snow-shoe that was found. Maybe they were also to prevent the horses hooves going down into rock crevices. Maybe they were rock-shoes rather than snow-shoes.
Proving that years ago temperature were higher than today
That's fascinating, amazing...but also depressing. Great job preserving the history.
Most of us won't save the world, but that doesn't mean u can't make a difference helping it.
Absolutely fascinating.... But so sad that the ice is melting so fast.... 😊... 😢
It was warmer the entire time this pass was used, then it was cold for a while. Now it is going back to how it was before.
World 🌍 is Ending
@@puresim316nosimracingnolif3 Hysterics.
It’s not
dude it was ice free when the artifacts were placed meaning it was much warmer then
Does this mean that the earth was warmer back then ? That the earth warms and cools at intervals, not as humans make it do so ? Pretty hard to argue that humans warmed the earth 500 or 1000 years ago with their minimal population at the time, burning wood that grows back, although some cultures burned coal even though they didn't know what it was.
I am pretty sure that they weren't worried about global warming during the beginning of the minimum ice age, I am surprised that anything lasted under the weight of the moving glacier as it crushed everything else, where I live in WA, around Perth, it's all sand, but up north there are dinosaur foot prints in rock formations next to the coast, it makes you wonder to what extremes that the global temperatures have changed so rapidly in the past,
it was after ice age, they said oldest finds are 1800+ years old
This isn't a glacier. It's a stationary patch of ice
Idiot
@@kokobedima
We're in an interglacial period of an ice age. Once we move to a greenhouse state with no permanent ice year round the ice age will be over.
@@kokobedima They are talking about the little ice age or mini ice age that Europe experienced about 700 years ago. While there were a few significant temperature drops before that, it did overall become way colder in the 14th century and stayed till the 19th century. Then it gradually started to warm up and kinda went into high speed heating shortly after.
So the country was hot and the ancient people lived there. Then it became cold and the ice covered the land forcing the people to leave. Now it's warming up again but it's a bad thing? 🤷♂️
is the speed that the planet is warming up. Animals may have no time to adapt and go extinct...
Yes... those are beautiful ARTIFACTS. Yes, artifacts.
This is BBC. The British English spelling is artefacts.
Does it mean the ice had melted before?
no it just means stuff has been in there for ages, why have snow shoes for your freaking horse if there is no snow/ice
The items had to get into the ice, that is thaw and re freeze as they are supposed to do.
Todays young generation will never forgive the angst & depression put on them by todays society, when they realize the world was NOT ending, all that suffering was in vain. BBC is no small voice of that choir.
*vain
how amazing and thank you for being so dedicated
It’s just such a cool feeling to see a jointed snaffle bit that looks exactly like the one I used when I rode horses in my youth, but it’s over a 1000 years old. At least there is some good news that comes from climate change, as long as we find the artifacts in time… It’s happening so fast that we are probably losing a ton of them forever. 😢
my grandfathers' barn is exactly like barns I've seen dating back hundreds of years in Norway: a walkway, horse paddocks on one side for teams (three teams, six horses) and cattle on the other side. Was up to Todd Mountain and Swedes homesteaded and their barn?? Exactly the same. A Scandinavian design 1,000 years old, like your snaffle. you worked one horse team in the a.m., one in the afternoon, one in the late afternoon so they didn't burn out.
Or in other words, some horsemanship skills haven't improved in over 1000 years ;) :p
@@msm7927 we didn't have much money to go dressage, castle, and do you have any idea how much good slaves cost???!
How amazing to find all those artifacts under the melting glacier. Same is happening in other places in Europe as global temperatures rise. Perhaps there is their a quasi-cyclic climate pattern? ~1BC Roman Warm Period, ~1000AD Medieval Warm Period, 2 ,000AD Modern Warm Period.
Yes, exactly! But they are not going to tell us because that would crush their climate change agenda! There is lots of evidence that the climate on earth changes periodicly and the warm periods have always been heydays for mankind.
It seems like a metal detector would be helpful, but I didn't see any in use.
difficult to imagine a horse able to walk over a snowcapped mountain, with or without snowshoes. Could it be that the area was already snow-free when used for travelling?
So that's mean there wasn't ice thousands of years ago,
Why do we have to worry about, or why we afraid for change might be for better be positive rathen negative
corporate shill
No. Why would they have snow shoes for their horses? It's like finding a glove on your lawn when the snow melts away.
This was good I wish it had been longer.
Oh wait, so 1000 years ago the glacier was at the same point it is now when someone left that reindeer fence thing? So they must have had global warming back then right?
What makes you say the glacier was the same then as it is now?
too many gas engines and carbon foot prints 1,000 years ago caused the ice to melt so they could go put those things up there to hide until they got iced over
No. It's not a fence, it's a stick to guide them along where you want them to walk instead of putting your hand near their bitey parts.
Let me guess, the Vikings were Black BBC? The changing of history you so love must make it so
This would be such an amazing job to have. We are definitely gonna find more things like this soon.
Doesn't this just prove that the climate was once warmer and that the change we are currently going through is simply a natural occurrence?
If carbon is the basis of all life, are we right to demonise it?
I use to be a strong supporter of the climate change idea, but am coming to see a different view point. Perhaps we're wrong, and the changing climate is simply a natural event in time, all be it helped along by our intervention.
The way I understand it is that it is something natural, I don't think that people really deny that, but we humans accelerate the process way too fast.
@@ItsASuckyNamePROOF!
Humans are not responsible for weather.
No....why would they have snowshoes for their horses???
@@tastypymp1287 but we are responsible for climate change as science agrees we are even some oil companies such as bp agree that we are causing clime change. Think about the world as cup is already full of natural carbon what happens when you add to full cup it’s spills the cup will be drank out of by a natural carbon captures such as tress and coral reefs but they can only take so much out and theirs nothing to clean up the spill until the cup has been stopped being filled by us. Climate change is very much real do you want to know something that really freaky climate change once had the same united public support as the smoking ban so why is it not so popular as it used to be because of oil companies they used and improved the tactics of the smoking companies that had used them to try and stop the smoking ban do you know why the word global warming isn’t used anymore and instead was changed to climate change because oil companies thought the word climate change doesn’t sound as scary and as serious as global warming. Oil companies have been muddying the waters as so people can’t agree on tactics for dealing with climate change and on what’s causing it
@@tastypymp1287 we are if we contributed to its change.