Stone Age Dagger Dating Back 3,700 Years Ago Discovered by Child at Norwegian School

By Louise Franco May 10, 2023 05:58 PM EDT

A Stone Age dagger was accidentally found by an 8-year-old girl while playing outside her school in Norway. The Stone Age tool was crafted 3,700 years ago by ancient inhabitants of the area of what is now a European country, it was reported earlier this week. The child, only identified as Elise, picked up the rare artifact, which is believed to be the only one in the area in Vestland County.

Norway is part of the Nordic Stone Age, which pertains to the Stone Age in Scandinavian territories, thousands of years ago. The said period started after the European region became hospitable to humans only 12000 years ago, which paved the way for the arrival of humans, according to archeologists. The period lasted from 12000 to 1800 B.C., a period when our ancestors further improved their tools.

Norway Stone Age Dagger



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Archeologist of the Israel Antiquities Authority Jacob Vardi holds on July 16, 2019, a bronze head spear and a dagger's blade dated to the middle bronze period which was buried as burial offering in a warrior's tomb found at the archeological excavation site of a settlement from the Neolithic Period (New Stone Age), discovered during archaeological excavations by the Israel Antiquities Authority near Motza Junction, about 5km west of Jerusalem. - The settlement is the largest known in Israel from that period and one of the largest of its kind in the region.

The Norwegian girl found the Stone Age dagger in a rocky part of the schoolyard she was playing. The child was uncertain what the sharp object was she first spotted it, slightly under the edge of a small boulder, as reported in the Norwegian press, as cited by the website Ancient Origins.

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