Melting Swiss glacier yields Neolithic trove, climate secrets

Yahoo - AFP ^ | Sept 5, 2008 | by Hui Min Neo Hui Min Neo

[Islander7]

Analysis showed the pants' patch was made from a domesticated goat that resembled a breed recorded in Laos in those days.

"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.

[Carling]

So clearly the glaciers had not been there 9000 years ago.

Yet we are the cause of melting glaciers.

[jdsteel]

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.

[ClearCase_guy]

"But the chances that the goat migrated from Laos are very slim."

Are you suggesting that goats migrate?
Not at all. It could have been carried.
What! Carried by a swallow?

[Red_Devil 232]

Neolithic ping

[gundog]

So clearly the glaciers had not been there 9000 years ago.

I think that's what's called "an inconvenient truth." :)

[gundog]

Not an African swallow.

[AreaMan]

Are you suggesting that goats migrate? Not at all. It could have been carried. What! Carried by a swallow?

Dude it came over in the ark.

But now that you mention it...what kind of Swallow? African or European?

[irishtenor]

I live in Seattle. I do not know of this big ball of fire in the sky that you talk about.

[Argus]

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.

[Carling]

Damn that Fred Flintstone and his carbon-spewing SUV.

I'm blaming Mr. Slate and his rock quarry/coal mine.

[BigEdLB]

Are your sure one of those 9000 year old mummies didn't escape?

[DuncanWaring]

Do the old men’s legends not speak of such a thing?

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“Not an African swallow.”
Maybe a Russian KGB Swallow? Oh! Wait! That refers to something else. Never mind!

[RobRoy]

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.

[steelyourfaith]





Beam me to Planet Gore !


[irishtenor]

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.

[BenLurkin]

Stop

Being

Logical

It will only get us in trouble.

[I-ambush]

But African swallows are non-migratory.

[I-ambush]

But African swallows are non-migratory.