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      Crossing the ice: an Iron Age to medieval mountain pass at Lendbreen, Norway

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          Mountain passes have played a key role in past mobility, facilitating transhumance, intra-regional travel and long-distance exchange. Current global warming has revealed an example of such a pass at Lendbreen, Norway. Artefacts exposed by the melting ice indicate usage from c. AD 300–1500, with a peak in activity c. AD 1000 during the Viking Age—a time of increased mobility, political centralisation and growing trade and urbanisation in Northern Europe. Lendbreen provides new information concerning the socio-economic factors that influenced high-elevation travel, and increases our understanding of the role of mountain passes in inter- and intra-regional communication and exchange.

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                Journal
                Antiquity
                Antiquity
                Antiquity Publications
                0003-598X
                1745-1744
                April 2020
                April 16 2020
                April 2020
                : 94
                : 374
                : 437-454
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                10.15184/aqy.2020.2
                7df745da-bc51-4b5b-9c11-a5d4509ad3d7
                © 2020

                http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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