Melting ice reveals lost Viking trade route

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Wool clothing, leather shoes, a walking stick and a lost ski. Nothing unusual about those things except their age: 1,700 years old. They’re just some of the artifacts that global warming has revealed along a Viking-era mountain pass in central Norway. The World’s host Marco Werman speaks with Lars Pilø, a Norwegian glacial archaeologist who’s been conducting fieldwork at the site and writing about it. 

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