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Bola rock carvings
The rock carvings are part of our pre-historic rock on, Along with the rock
paintings they represent some of our most distinctive cultural monuments.
The carvings at the river Bela were carved into the rock by means of simple
stone tools some time in the early Stone Age, presumably 5000 to 6000 years
ago. They were made in a period when people in Trendelag still lived by
fishing and hunting and collecting shells, plants and roots.
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Usually, the carvings of the
hunters represent animals, especially big ones like elk, reindeer, bear and
whale. Catching these animals required great skill and strength.
At the time when these rock carvings were made, the lake of Snasa was
probably still part of the Trondheim fjord. The possibility of taming
animals and plants had been discovered in the Middele East a couple of
thousand years earlier, and agriculture was making fast progress in Europe. |
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However, some thausand years were
still to pass before it gained ground in Trendelag too. It is still uncerain
why the rock carvings were made, and a number of different interpretations
have been suggested. There are probably several underlying reasons for the
carvings: It is possible they were regarded as something magic that was
believed to secure a successful hunt, but the may also have been carved into
the rock to mark good hunting grounds or places to live, which people wanted
the following generations to find again. |
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