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Lars Pilø

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This is the Juvfonne ice patch as it looks now. St

This is the Juvfonne ice patch as it looks now. Still a lot of snow from last winter, and old ice is just appearing in the center. The weather forecast shows cold temperatures, snow and heavy winds in the coming days and this means that our field season is over. Wasn't much of a field season anyway due to the extra snow this year, but we did manage to find one new site.

This is the way it is with glacial archaeology: some years there are melts and other years we have extra snow. It is a bit like the Arctic sea ice – it goes up and down, but the trend is clearly down. The good thing is that a bad year for glacial archaeology is a good year for the glaciers 😊

(Photo: Liss M. Andreassen)

We are back up at Lendbreen - the famous mountain

We are back up at Lendbreen - the famous mountain pass that melted out of the ice. We found a horseshoe from one of the packhorses that crossed the ice here during the Middle Ages. As we had brought along our own packhorses (Icelandic), we got a chance to compare the horseshoe types and sizes then and now. Neat! 🙂 #glacialarchaeology #climatechange #horse

Back in the camp after completing the fieldwork at

Back in the camp after completing the fieldwork at the new ice patch site. It has been a fantastic start to the field season even with the extra snow this year. Stay tuned, there will be more to come 🙂 #glacialarchaeology #climatechange

OH WOW: Check out this arrow with an arrowhead mad

OH WOW: Check out this arrow with an arrowhead made of shell 😍 Probably around 3500 years old. Check the second picture for the shell arrowhead.
This is a crazy site. Very few finds, but the ones that are found, are absolute top-notch ❤️ #glacialarchaeology #climatechange #archery

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