Ep 152 - Glacial Archaeology With Julian Post-Melbye

Nordic Mythology Podcast

Daniel Farrand

Historical, Nordic, Norse Mythology, History, Comedy, Odin, Mythology, Education, Medieval, Viking, Myth, Vikings, Thor, Norse

4.8 • 356 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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In this week's episode, Dan is joined by Julian Post-Melbye and the two explore some of the wonderful finds Glacial Archaeology has to offer.

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0:17.1	Welcome to the Nordic mythology podcast, I'm Daniel Farund, owner of the Cummehs of Odin and to JIT today I'm joined by Julian posed Melby. Julian thank you for joining me I'm really excited about this episode we're gonna be looking at glacial archaeology which is fascinating to me.
0:29.9	So yeah if you can just tell everybody kind of maybe who you are what you do
0:34.7	Certainly so thank you for having me on. Yeah, my name is Julian post Melby and I'm an
0:39.4	archaeologist at the Museum of Cultural Heritage at the University of Oslo of Oslo in Norway.
0:47.0	I work on the glacial archaeology program
0:51.0	and for many people, they know us through secrets of the ice which is our public outreach
0:57.2	part of the program. So what we do is we survey and do a lot of field work and collecting of artifacts around melting snow in the glaciers and ice patches in south central Norway.
1:16.3	So this is the in-lama county area
1:19.0	where most of the high mountains in Norway
1:21.2	are situated.
1:29.2	Norway is, of course, a very northern countries so as soon as you come above a thousand meters the tree line is gone and you're getting into areas with no vegetation and above 1500 meters should get areas of permanent ice and snow and there's permafrost so weia in that kind of environment.
1:43.9	Okay, this might be a super ignorant question to start off with.
1:49.5	But is the, is the ice and snow melting?
1:52.3	Is it just a yearly thing and then you go in at the right time
1:56.9	when it's melting or is it due to outside factors like climate change?
2:01.5	Yeah, so if you can see the feel. is like the field of like what would you call glacial archaeology is something that's been emerging
2:09.0	the last couple of decades and that's mainly because sites and places which have had stable cold
2:17.2	environments for the last in Norway for example close to 8,000 years and in the Alps the same.
2:27.0	And now the ice is retreating at very fast and this is exposing a lot of sites that have been encased in ice for thousands of years.
2:42.0	And so what we do is we have to get in kind of at the end of the summer because there's
2:51.3	always there's snow every year in Norway of course and then so it will start
2:57.7	snowing in September and that snow will melt through next year's summer.
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