8-year-old girl accidentally unearthed a Neolithic artifact (3 photos)

In Norway, an eight-year-old girl named Elisa, playing next to at her school in Westland County, found a valuable Stone Age artifact. It turned out that the stone of an unusual shape is a flint dagger, made 3700 years ago.





Eliza said she was looking for some pointy a pebble or a piece of glass, and came across a long one (12 cm) gray-brown mineral.

He interested her in an unusual shape and she decided to show to his teacher Karen Drange. She saw that the stone looked ancient and contacted the Westland County Council. Archaeologists have explored artifact and determined its type and age.



According to archaeologist Louise Bjerre Petersen, this flint the dagger is a rare find. Flint, a hard sedimentary rock, does not occur naturally found in Norway. Apparently, the dagger could have hit Norway through Denmark from somewhere across the North Sea. Daggers of this type often found in sacrificial pits, archaeologists added.

Westland County representatives and university staff The Westland Museum in Bergen jointly explored the area where dagger was found. However, other artifacts related to the stone century, was not found.



According to experts, the dagger probably dates back to the New Stone Age or Neolithic, the time when prehistoric people already made stone tools and began to domesticate plants and animals, build permanent villages and develop crafts (such as pottery). IN Norway Stone Age, which includes the Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic, lasted from 10,000 BC before 1800 BC