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Topic started on 26-6-2007 @ 10:51 AM by Sakif
This is my first post on this forum, and I am a bit uncertain where I should post this. And I have possibly done it wrong. But here goes:
Today I found an interesting article in the biggest paper of Norway (VG).

Article taken from the “VG\Verdens Gang”

Inca found in Østfold

Archaeologists have found the remains of a skeleton supposedly from 1000 AD in “Sarpsborg”, Norway. The skeleton has the same genetic marks as the Inca people of Latin America.

The archaeologists got them selves a big surprise when they were to remove some rosebushes. Beneath them they found the remains of two elderly men and one baby.
- When we grabbed the roots of the rosebushes, bones came tumbling down. It was quite shocking. States the archaeologist Mona Beate Buckholm from “Borgarsyssel” Museum.
One of the craniums had specific marks of a typical Inca Indian.
- It is a bone in the neck, that has not grown (sorry, but there is no precise word for “grodd” in English). This is an inherited mark that can only be found on the skeletons of the Inca Indians in Peru and their bloodline. This is an amazing.

Archaeologists will now try to determine what the man did in “Østfold”, and how he got there.

Here is the original text from “VG”:

Inkaindianer funnet i Østfold

Arkeologer har funnet skjelettrester fra 1000-tallet i Sarpsborg med samme trekk som inkaindianerne.

Da arkeologene skulle flytte noen rosebusker, fikk de seg en stor overraskelse. For under en av rosebuskene lå benrester fra to eldre menn og en baby.

- Idet vi skulle ta under rosebusken, raste det ut skjelettrester. Det var ganske overraskende, sier arkeolog ved Borgarsyssel Museum, Mona Beate Buckholm.

Det ene av kraniene hadde trekk som kan tyde på at mannen var en inkaindianer.

- Det er et ben i nakken som ikke har grodd, og det er et arvelig trekk som bare finnes hos inkaindianerne i Peru. Det er sensasjonelt, sier Buckholm.

Nå vil arkeologene forsøke å finne ut hva mannen gjorde i Østfold, og hvordan han har kommet seg dit.


The question I ask myself is of course how these people got here. Even more amazing is how they arrived in Norway so early. 1000 AD is just about the time when Norway went from being a land of the Viking Lords to become a Christian nation (they where of course forced to). We have a well known history of this time, and many specimens are found of the two different races living in Norway, but not once have it occurred a finding like this. Not even close. Norwegian adventurer and explorer “Thor Heyerdahl” (known from the “kon-tiki expedition”) had theories of immigration from the Inca people to Polynesia. But did they go as far as Northern-Europe. As far as Norway? And how could possibly this be done? And wouldn’t it be more remains of Inca people here in Norway if they did cross the sea? Or perhaps other places in Europe? Many people believe that many of the Latin American people had first time contact with Extraterrestrial life, and some even believe they are their descendants. However, this event could shed new light on the questions about the presumably “aloof” people like the Inca and perhaps the Maya. The history of immigration, and of course Erich Von Danikens theories . What do you people make of this? I might add that I try not to assume anything, but it sure is weird that these remains found their way to Norway all of a sudden. I even ask myself if E.T life intervened in some kind of way, though I cannot say why they dumped these people in Norway … ohh..very long post. Sorry, but had to hear other peoples opinion on this.

My history is possibly not of the best and neither my English, but I think that the historic events stated are accurate enough.

If any new happens to this, I will try to follow up.

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[edit on 26/6/07 by masqua]


reply posted on 26-6-2007 @ 10:53 AM by Sakif
Sorry, but I would have exceeded the 4000 character maximum. so here's the ending

Link to the article in VG:
www.vg.no...

This is what wikipedia has to say about the ”Inca”
en.wikipedia.org... (note. Some states that the Inca empire arose in the 11th century, and some states that it arose even earlier. And some states that it arose in the 13th century)
This is what wikipedia has to say about ”kon-tiki”.
en.wikipedia.org...


reply posted on 26-6-2007 @ 11:26 AM by Sakif
Yeah. Point well taken. The remains could have been brought over, but there is some problems to that what so ever. In the last 19th and 20th century norway was quite an isolated country. The people was so concerned about ourselves because of the fact that we had our own independence declared in 1814 (after several years under Denmark). But then we was under the reign of Sweden until 1905. In this years and until the 1nd and 2nd world war, the Nowegian people had more than enough trouble by trying to identify themselves, our culture and our own history. We have allways been a small unsegnificant country until we hit the Oil Jackpot. You could say that scientist ann archeoalagists were more or less unknown professions in Norway in these years. We had little information about the outside world, and we did not care either (weird as it is). Though many Norwegians immigrated to the United states in the time, extremely few came back. Mostly people immigrated to the northern part of USA. And as far as I know USA was a rather "new" country in it self, so study on natice Inca and Maya was not of the most important studies of the time. And the fact that the bones was dated to 1000 AD.. That is just to vierd One should belive that if these remains was brought over to study, that it would be considered exlusive objects, and that they would have records of them or something. And why just dump the bones? That is even more crazy than the meere posibillity that Aliens brought Inca here.
Ahh.. maybe i'm just full of it. Wishing that Aliens did this or something


reply posted on 26-6-2007 @ 11:45 AM by Sakif
Actually... The Vikings actually discovered the American Continent long before Columbus did. This has been proven a fact. They did it by Accident though. And they called the land "Wine Land". Norwegians have allways been explorers and men of the sea. Here's a link to the finding of America (lousy page though.. it's probably something to find on wikipedia.. but for some reason my explorer would not open wiki ) www.daria.no... there are allways small differences in how the story goes in it's whole. btw (Iceland was so to say a part of norway in those days)

Anyhow, Greenland and Latin America is faaaaar from eachother. Seriously. And the currents of the occean and the forming of waves are extremely different in the North Sea and in the atlantic. Not few times did the Vikingships break when going farther West\South and East in the World. The shape of these ships were formed to cut through waves of reletively "shallow" waters and not the Occean weather of the many seas in the world. And the possibility of the white man settling down across America, (going further and further south) in 1000 AD and as far as Latin America would have given more tracks. And I still can not see why they went to America if they wanted slaves (or "Trell" as they called it in norway). They did allready have lots of lots of them. This is just soooo weird. Hope they find out more soon


reply posted on 26-6-2007 @ 05:00 PM by Byrd
First, thanks for the entertaining article, Sakif!

I did some research (brief) and found other references to it that clear up the matter somewhat -- apparently the scientists were misquoted:
aviana.com...

“There is a bone in the neck [of the man] that has not healed,” Norwegian archaeologist Mona Beate Buckholm says, “and this is an inherited trait that is only found among Inca Indians in Peru.”


Poor scientist! She was very badly misquoted!

Here's a BETTER article on it, that gets the matter straight. Apparently these three individuals were found with rosebushes planted on top of them in a medieval graveyard... and not in standard graves. What was found are bone fragments and not a complete and intact skeleton. They may have been "unbaptized" people... it was common then to bury unbaptized in non-consecrated ground rather than in consecrated ground:
www.bitsofnews.com...

So... having a look at the fragments:
www.bitsofnews.com...
...it's an older man (we'll assume that yes it's a man from other things in the grave), who has lost his teeth and suffered from gum disease and was about age 45-50 at death. I'll guess that these bone fragments are from the same skeleton... though they may not be. That jaw makes him look much older, but the fusing on the skull is that of a younger man.

Look at the flat skull piece -- there's a "crack" on the skull that's really a very wavy and almost loopy line. This is where the skull bones grew together. Everyone's got them and the crack fills in over time. By age 70, it's hard to see and by age 90, it's almost completely filled in. The cracks are called sutures.

Where the sutures from the parietal (top side of the skull) meet the occipital (rear lower bone), an extra bone sometimes forms. It's not shown in the photographs at the article. This is called the "inca bone" -- but it's not always found in Incans.


Additional stuff:
Here's a paper on an Indian skull that shows the way the suture forms (this appears to be a saggital coronal suture):
www.neuroanatomy.org...

On this page, skull #769 shows similar features of the suture:
www.boneroom.com...

Shown here on page 64 (slideshow presentation):
anthropology.uvic.ca...

I found a senior level anthropology thesis that says (after studying one skull collection) that the "inca bone" is found more often in males than in females. It doesn't say where the skulls came from, but this may represent a Native American population. If so, it's not unlikely that one or more Native Americans (particularly Aleut or Inuit) or a halfbreed ended up back in Norway:
www.soa.ilstu.edu...

Anyway... what an interesting article! Thanks for bringing it to us!

[edit on 26-6-2007 by Byrd]
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