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!
(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.”
