January
22
/ 2015
In summer 2014 in just one Norwegian county a team of archaeologists found 400 Stone Age artifacts uncovered by glacial melt. “Mittens, shoes, weapons, walking sticks – lost in the high mountains of Norway thousands of years ago - are now emerging from melting ice,” says ScienceNordic in a January 2015 article. Lars Pilø, the archaeologist who leads the Norwegian team, said Earth should be approaching a new ice age, but instead people are recovering artifacts from melting glaciers like never before. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"7880","attributes":{"alt":"1,700-year-old tunic recovered from ice. ","class":"media-image","style":"width: 610px; height: 453px;","typeof":"foaf:Image"}}]] 1,700-year-old tunic recovered from ice. (Photo: Mårten Teigen/Museum of Cultural History) This phenomenon is not limited to Norway. All over the world as glaciers melt and recede, archaeologists and
