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24 אוגוסט, 2012

Children’s Graves Excavated in North Iceland

20.08.2012 | 00:00

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Children’s Graves Excavated in North Iceland
Two children’s graves were discovered during an excavation at an ancient burial site by Hofsstaðir in the Mývatn rural area, northeast Iceland, this summer. Archaeologists believe the discovery supports the notion that those who died without having been baptized were buried outside cemeteries.

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A different archaeological site. Photo by Bernhild Vögel.

Archaeological research of the Hofsstaðir burial site has taken place with intermission for the past 14 years. The site is believed to date back to the latter part of the tenth century. So far, archaeologists have unearthed 177 skeletons and two churches, ruv.is reports.
This summer archaeologists have focused on the cemetery wall and the area outside it. The project is far from finished; there are plans to excavate the entire burial site to obtain an integral bone collection from the Middle Ages and other information on burial ceremonies and churches from that time.
“I would guess that we have excavated more than half of the cemetery but we have to enlarge the area both to the south and west in the coming years to uncover all of it,” said archaeologist Oddgeir Ísaksen.

Click here to read more about archaeological projects in Iceland.

הכותב יוסי לוי joseph levy הינו מומחה לאיסלנד iceland, המלווה קבוצות בנהיגה עצמית בלבד, והמתכנן מסלולי טיול לפי מידת המטייל,והמשמש כמומחה באתר http://www.gotravel.co.il/.
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06 יולי, 2012

North Iceland Lake’s “Poop Balls”

01.07.2012 | 18:00

North Iceland Lake’s “Poop Balls” About to Disappear

The rare phenomenon marimo (a.k.a. lake ball or moss ball), known as kúluskítur (literally: “poop ball”) in Icelandic is about to disappear from Lake Mývatn in northeast Iceland, according to research by Japanese plant physiologist Isamu Wakana.

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Marimo. Photo by ESA.

Wakana is currently in Iceland for the sixth time to study the Mývatn marimo, which is believed to be one of only two locations where it exists in the world. The other is Lake Akan in Japan, ruv.is reports. However, there are reports that it may exist elsewhere too.
Wakana dived in the lake on Thursday with employees of RAMY (the Mývatn Nature Research Center) in attendance to study the marimo’s state.
“We started suspecting two years ago that the marimo had decreased to such an extent that there are hardly any left,” said RAMY’s director Árni Einarsson. “When we first discovered it in 1978 there were […] tens of millions of lake balls in Mývatn, now there only appear to be a few hundred left.”
The remaining balls are scattered over a rather small area and their condition is not good. “They look rather limp, not firm and beautiful as they should be […] and hollow inside,” Árni said in description of their state.
Árni said it isn’t clear what is causing this development and it must be studied in more detail. The lake balls are known to be sensitive towards currents and light conditions, which depend on the amount of sediment in the lake.
A marimo is a rare growth form of filamentous green algae (Chlorophyta) where the algae grow into large green balls with a velvety appearance, as stated on Wikipedia.
Marimos are displayed at Sigurgeir’s Bird Museum on the banks of Lake Mývatn.

Click here to read more about the bird museum.


הכותב יוסי לוי joseph levy הינו מומחה לאיסלנד iceland, המלווה קבוצות בנהיגה עצמית בלבד, והמתכנן מסלולי טיול לפי מידת המטייל,והמשמש כמומחה באתר http://www.gotravel.co.il/.
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