LiveScience reports.
"Warming temperatures are melting patches of ice that have been in place for thousands of years in the mountains of the Canadian High Arctic and in turn revealing a treasure trove of ancient hunting tools,"
They cite as examples:
In 1997, sheep hunters discovered a 4,300-year-old dart shaft in caribou dung that had become exposed as the ice receded. . . . [Archaeologist Tom] Andrews and his team (including members of the indigenous Shutaot'ine or Mountain Dene) have found 2,400-year-old spear throwing tools, a 1000-year-old ground squirrel snare, and bows and arrows dating back 850 years.
So what does this dire news add up to? A NO-Prize to the first commenter who spots it.......
3 comments:
uhhh... no one would shoot an arrow into caribou dung?
Hehe..sorry Lee, that was all I could come up with! : P
Um.. there weren't always glaciers there if people were hunting in the region? And the artifacts go back to the time of Christ, which we have maps of & it sure looks like the Meditteranean Sea is about the same level now as it was back then?
So... glaciers melt & are recreated over time?
My guess---850 year old tools trapped below ice that's thousands of years old. Maybe there was a burrowing culture that did their hunting in ice tunnels?
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