Are your sure one of those 9000 year old mummies didn't escape?
Posted on 09/05/2008 3:00:50 PM PDT by Islander7
BERN (AFP) – Some 5,000 years ago, on a day with weather much like today's, a prehistoric person tread high up in what is now the Swiss Alps, wearing goat leather pants, leather shoes and armed with a bow and arrows.
The unremarkable journey through the Schnidejoch pass, a lofty trail 2,756 metres (9,000 feet) above sea level, has been a boon to scientists. But it would never have emerged if climate change were not melting the nearby glacier.
So far, 300 objects dating as far back as the Neolithic or New Stone Age -- about 4,000 BC in Europe -- to the later Bronze and Iron Ages and the Medieval era have been found in the site's former icefields.
"We know now that the discoveries on Schnidejoch are the oldest of this kind ever made in the Alps," said Albert Hafner, an expert with the archaeology service in Bern canton.
They have allowed researchers not only to piece together snapshots of life way back when, but also to shed light on climate fluctuations in the past 6,500 years -- and hopefully shed light on what is happening now.
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"But the chances that the goat migrated from Laos are very slim. It could be a species that we had never before recorded to have been present in the Europe. Or its lineage may have died out since," said Grosjean.
Five years on, discoveries continue as the glaciers retreats.
"Last week, we found another Roman coin," said Grosjean, while Hafner said talks were underway with several museums on a future exhibition of the finds.
And with climate change, more such sites could emerge.
So clearly the glaciers had not been there 9000 years ago.
Yet we are the cause of melting glaciers.
Look fast, dude. It’s getting colder. Thanks to this big ball of fire in the sky that has a little something to do with our climate in this solar system.
Are you suggesting that goats migrate?
Not at all. It could have been carried.
What! Carried by a swallow?
Neolithic ping
I think that's what's called "an inconvenient truth." :)
Not an African swallow.
Dude it came over in the ark.
But now that you mention it...what kind of Swallow? African or European?
I live in Seattle. I do not know of this big ball of fire in the sky that you talk about.
Yeah, how did all this stuff get UNDER the glacier in the first place?
Right, IT MUST NOT HAVE BEEN A GLACIER 9,000 YEARS AGO.
Damn that Fred Flintstone and his carbon-spewing SUV.
I'm blaming Mr. Slate and his rock quarry/coal mine.
Do the old men’s legends not speak of such a thing?
“Not an African swallow.”
Maybe a Russian KGB Swallow? Oh! Wait! That refers to something else. Never mind!
Well, couldn’t several swallows use a nylon string to carry a goat.
Oh, they’d need at least two goats.
I believe african swallows are stronger than regular swallows. I’m not sure about Laosian swallows.
There are dire prophesies of a great ball of fire in the sky causing all the moss and mold to dry up, but we know this is a false utterance.
Stop
Being
Logical
It will only get us in trouble.
But African swallows are non-migratory.
But African swallows are non-migratory.
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