A Stone Age Arrow Surfaces in Jotunheimen, Norway In three weeks this summer, the Secrets of the Ice team recovered 48 prehistoric arrows from the Langfonne, Storfonne and Handklefonne ice patches. The oldest is a slate arrowhead, 5,000 to 6,000 years old, still carrying fragments of its wooden shaft and traces of its original binding. Alongside it came a complete 3,600-year-old arrow tipped with freshwater mussel shell. For most of the project's 20 years, finds dated to the last two millennia. Now the oldest ice is melting, and the oldest objects are surfacing with it. The archaeologists expect most of these ice patches to vanish within two decades. Every arrow rescued is a hunt remembered. The race is on.