Posted on 01/27/2022 11:49:43 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Climate change is threatening to destroy treasures buried in the UK as the soils that protect them dry out.
A Roman toilet seat, the world's oldest boxing glove, and the oldest handwritten letter by a woman are some of the extraordinary objects discovered in at-risk British peatlands.
It means climate change could undermine our understanding of our past, say archaeologists.
About 22,500 archaeological sites in UK may be in danger.
The problem is that changing weather patterns are drying out some peatlands - the waterlogged soils that cover about 10% of the UK.
Dr Rosie Everett, of Northumbria University, is part of a team that has been assessing the effect of climate change on peatland archaeology across the UK.
She says a host of historic sites in peatlands are under threat, covering the entire sweep of the country's history.
There are Palaeolithic pathways up to 12,000 years old, and Bronze Age burial sites as well as the remains of more modern settlements and industrial activities.
"Peatlands represent such a small part of the ecology of Britain, but they have massive potential to tell us about our past," says Dr Everett.
While an archaeologist working at a "dry" site might find 10% of what was once there, at a peatland site they may find as much as 90% of the material culture of ancient communities, say archaeologists.
"The loss of peatlands would have big implications for the understanding of the country's history but also for our climatic history and our environmental history," says Dr Everett.
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Threatening it with what? A Gun? A Knife? Ugly Words?
Time’s a wastin’ there isn’t governor!! Better get busy!
Based on the whale skeletons in the Sahara desert, what did we lose there?
It seems to me that dry soils would preserve certain things better than wet soils would.
Warm weather is wet weather.
The peat is drying out?
I guess the world is getting colder.
> A Roman toilet seat, the world’s oldest boxing glove, and the oldest handwritten letter by a woman... <
I’ve got to be honest. I haven’t done much to fight Climate Change. But now that I know Roman toilet seats are at risk, I promise to do more.
A Roman toilet seat. Are they claiming there has been no other climate changes in the last 2,000 years?
Just when you think media propagandists have run out of “things climate change will ruin,” they find another!
Call the Time Team. They will find everything in just 3 days!
I’m more concerned about there being sufficient peat to support the booming scotch and whisky markets.
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Dear British peatland scientists,
We believe you when you say the earth will be dead in seven years. So based on that, it’s time to shut your research down as it will all be over soon anyway. Please turn the lights out and turn in your ID badges.
Stop climate change. For peat’s sake.
OMG, and what about Oak Island?!?!?!?!
WOW! Is there NOTHING climate change can’t do!?
A bunch of hand written letters? 🙂
Peat is mostly anoxic, so organic material tends to be preserved. That’s why peat is peat - it’s almost entirely vegetable fibres which have never completely decomposed.
Irrational, low-IQ, dishonest, lying pieces of shit.
So did it dry out from climate change or because they stopped using the toilet seat on the bog?
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