BOAT carvings found in Norway almost 15 years ago are now thought to be the oldest in Europe, according to a new study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology. The life-size examples of rock art could have served as signposts when early Scandinavians populated the Mesolithic seascape, the research...
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BOAT carvings found in Norway almost 15 years ago are now thought to be the oldest in Europe, according to a new study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology.
The life-size examples of rock art could have served as signposts when early Scandinavians populated the Mesolithic seascape, the research suggests, while also proposing the two images are thought to have been made around 10,000 to 11,000 years ago.
First identified in 2017, the boats appear as white outlines carved into the grey rock surface, and can only be seen clearly under the right weather conditions.
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