Jonny Daniels, who runs a foundation called “From the Depths,” holds a tombstone found in the Vistula. AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski.
Posted on 09/04/2015 2:00:03 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
In Poland, severe drought has revealed the remains of a Soviet fighter plane that went down in 1945. It’s far from the first (or last) archaeological site that climate change is revealing, in some cases for the first time in millennia.
Melting glaciers, thawing permafrost, and historic droughts are all playing a part in some of the most remarkable archaeological discoveries of the last few years. It’s a bittersweet phenomenon—that, as our planet changes, new pieces of our past will be revealed while other will decay.
In an AP story this week, we learn of two finds that have surfaced after a drought reduced Poland’s Vistula River and its tributaries to the lowest waterline since measurements were first recorded. In Warsaw, the drought has revealed shards of Jewish tombstones in the Vistula that were removed—by the hundreds of thousands—and used to “reinforce its banks” during the 19th century...
Likewise, in Siberia, where permafrost normally preserves organic material, unprecedented warmth is thawing burial mounts from a lost nomadic civilization—the Scythians. An archaeologist named Hermann Parzinger has had to work quickly to excavate their burial mounds, revealing the remarkably preserved bodies thanks to the ice. Now, it’s a race against the climate, as Discover Magazine explained a few years ago:
As the permafrost thaws, the ice that has preserved the Scythian mummies for so many centuries will thaw too. In the Olon-Kurin-Gol grave, the ice that once crushed the mummy against the roof of the burial chamber had receded nine inches by the time the chamber was opened. Within a few decades, the ice lenses may be completely gone...
(Excerpt) Read more at gizmodo.com ...
Jonny Daniels, who runs a foundation called “From the Depths,” holds a tombstone found in the Vistula. AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski.
Lies! This would mean that it was warmer in the past. The global warming deniers must have tunneled under the ice to put this stuff there!
They obviously don't realise they're admitting that we've had multiple warm periods in the past.
The Medieval Warm Period. The Roman Warm Period. The Minoan Warm period. And two long Holocene Climate optima.
The only 'bittersweet' part is that the people who lived in those times weren't such fools as we are today.
Well, not all. The Romans and the US have a few parallels, and we appear to be following a similar path to perdition.
(With apologies to Arlo Guthrie/Alice's Restaurant)
Oh but they assuredly had idiots in those days also - the difference being they hit critical mass in the 1990s, and now they are becoming the majority seeking to make idiocy the norm.
But when history becomes a twisted narrative of why the world owes you everything, the results of your policies will be just as twisted as your viewpoint.
WoW! (Slapping myself in the head with my hands) I am astonished to know that these artifacts were able to dig down under the ice and bury themselves.
Now (using the logic of liberals) due to the bad humans causing our climate to heat up, the ice melts and we find treasures that had dug themselves down under the ice.
It’s a sure sign of global warming when the ice melts and we find things that were there for centuries like airplanes and other prehistoric monuments that existed before the earth heated to the point that WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE!
Nice! I am so going to use this :0)
Yes, they need to get this stuff because the chances are pretty good that it’s going to get colder...ice caps in Antarctica are proof of that, and the North Pole is freezing farther south for longer periods. I dare Obama to claim “global warming” in his war on climate change. What a fool!
Is this what they mean by a "burial mount?"
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(Courtesy Oppland County Council, Photo: Johan Wildhagen/Palookaville) Archaeologists in Norway space themselves out to walk along ground newly exposed by the melting edges of an ice patch. Eyes firmly on the ground, they are on the lookout for artifacts that have spent thousands of years locked in ice.
The fortuitous discovery of the Bronze Age shoe helped the local heritage management office push for an organized rescue program to locate, assess, and search dozens of sites in the mountains of Oppland. It’s an effort that combines archaeology with high-tech mapping, glaciology, climate science, and history. When conditions are right, it’s as simple as picking the past up off the ground. “The ice is a time machine,” says Lars Pilö, an archaeologist who works for the Oppland County council. “When you’re really lucky, the artifacts are exposed for the first time since they were lost.”
The Scythian culture started at lease 6 or 800 BCE, and the culture had pretty much died out before the time of Christ. So obviously the Roman Climate Optimum and Medieval Warm Period were not warm enough to cause the melting of their tombs and rotting of the corpses that scientists are rushing now to save. It would appear that our “global warming” is warmer than some of the earlier warmings.
There’s no evidence of that, even in the article. The author does beat the drum a lot though.
Here is one story of a frozen 2,400 year old body found in a mound: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_Ice_Maiden
Here is a link for many items shown at “Scythian Burial Mounts”:
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