Climate change reveals unique artifacts in melting ice patches

One day more than 3000 years ago, someone lost a shoe at the place we today call Langfonne in the Jotunheimen mountains. The shoe is 28 cm long, which roughly corresponds to a modern size 36 or 37. The owner probably considered the shoe to be lost for good, but on 17 September 2007 it was found again -- virtually intact. Exceptionally well-preserved arrows from the Bronze Age have melted out of the Lopesfonna ice patch in Oppdal municipality in central Norway. They have intact...