The 8,000-year-old remains of a man found south of Oslo may be Norway’s oldest.
The skeleton is in an extremely fragile condition, meaning researchers are painstakingly examining it tiny fragment by tiny fragment, documenting the location of everything as accurately as possible and feeding it into a 3-D computer model of the find.
The archaeologists hope to learn the age of the man, his diet and the extent to which the people who found their way so far north had contact with other settlements around the Skagerrak and the Baltic Sea.
The skeleton was found lying in the fetal position, a typical stone-age burial position, in a pit which had been bricked in on the inside.
Story: The Local | Photo: Museum of Cultural History in Oslo
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