5,800-Year-Old Snowshoe Kept in Office as a Keepsake by its Finder is Oldest in the World
A crude snowshoe dating back about 5,800 years has been turned over to authorities after an Italian cartographer found it near where the ice mummy of Otzi the Iceman, a Neolithic hunter slain some 500 years later, was discovered in the Italian Dolemite Alps. Researchers at a press conference called it an exceptional find.
The snowshoe is made of birch wood and twine, and experts say it was preserved in the icy environs of the South Tyrolean Alps, where Simone Bartolini was mapping Italy’s border with Austria in 2003, says the Telegraph in a story about the snowshoe.
Dr. Bartolini found the snowshoe on the Gurgler Eisjoch glacier near the Italian border with Austria at about 3,134 meters or 10,280 feet. It will be put on display in the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, the capital of German-speaking South Tyrol.
Otzi the iceman. Credit: South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology
Dr. Bartolini of Florence found the snowshoe in 2003 but apparently did not immediately recognize its significance. The Telegraph reports that he kept the snowshoe in his office as a keepsake. He announced in a press conference Monday in Bolzano that he had turned it over to archaeologists for study in 2015.
“At first I thought it was maybe 100 years old and was a snowshoe that belonged to a farmer who lost it while driving cattle. I kept it in my office as a keepsake,” Dr. Bartolini said during the press conference, according to the Telegraph.
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