14 DAY TRIAL // A bow and several arrows dating back to the Neolithic period have recently been discovered by researcher Martin Callanan and his colleagues in Norway.
Live Science tells us that the artifacts have emerged from under a snow patch in the mountains in Oppdal County that melted because of warmer temperatures recorded in the region.
Investigations have revealed that the bow is made of elm, and was manufactured some 3,800 years ago by hunters that used to live in the area. The oldest of the arrows, on the other hand, is roughly 5,400 years old.
Martin Callanan suspects that people in the Neolithic era used the bow and the arrows to hunt reindeer.
Given the fact that, thanks to global warming, several other centuries-old snow patches in this part of the world are now melting, the researchers plan to return to the area and hopefully find other artifacts.