Melting ice in Yukon reveals ancient hunting artifacts

cbc.ca ^ | Jan. 13, 2004 | CBC Staff

[petuniasevan]

FYI

[explodingspleen]

Another object, a 1,200-year-old carved wooden piece, has scientists stumped as to its purpose.

Probably the base of a tree.

[blam]

Thanks for the ping. Will we find some of Kennewick Man's ancestors?

[TheFrog]

Or the stock of a 30.06? : )

[ClearCase_guy]

Let's see ... Global Warming ... melting ice ... revealing ... previously unknown human habitation from thousands of years ago ... so ... it must have been warm back then, just like it is now .... so ... Global Warming of the Earth's climate is part of the natural fluctuation of the output of the Sun. No reason to suspect human causation.

[Mike Darancette]

Last year's warm summer further melted the territory's alpine snowfields, which have become a rich source of artifacts from the territory's pre-history.

Global warming is causing the warmest time in history, which is causing all-year ice in the Yukon to melt exposing places where people lived when there was no all-year ice. The logic is inescapable.

[Theophilus]

This year's prize is a wooden dart dated at just over 9,000 years old

What 9,000 and a day? a week? month? less than 9001? I wonder how people date stamped things back in 7000 BC?

[ican'tbelieveit]

Quit being so logical.

[The UnVeiled Lady]

thank goodness for global warming or we wouldn't have seen these.

[NormsRevenge]

Cool, Bump!

[Hank Rearden]

It's just stuff from the gift shop, strategically placed by pranksters.

[farmfriend]

Gods, Graves, Glyphs
List for articles regarding early civilizations , life of all forms, - dinosaurs - etc.

Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this ping list.

[Sacajaweau]

btt

[djf]

So, my only question is why, at almost the height of the ice age, did they find relics at this place?
Standard theories of the ice age are wrong. There is no reason for the ice cap to be on the Hudson Bay, unless the poles were different then.
Mammoths, who eat 5-7 hundered pounds of bark and grass a day in Siberia at any time in the past with current models?

I don't think so, Tim.

[Ff--150]

unless the poles were different then.

Uh, you did put on your flame-suit, right?

[expat_panama]

btt

[ThanhPhero]

Will we find some of Kennewick Man's ancestors

With the ages given in this article,they might be Kennewick man's descendants.

[colorado tanker]

No, the Poles weren't different then. They still liked kielbasa.

[Little Bill]

If you follow blams arguments, which make sense to me, the migration was from east to west. I don't buy into the Southeast Asia argument.