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As Earth warms, human history is melting away

As Earth warms, human history is melting away

Climate change is revealing long-frozen artifacts and animals to archaeologists. But the window for study is slender and shrinking.
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6,000 years of arrows emerge from melting Norwegian ice patch

6,000 years of arrows emerge from melting Norwegian ice patch

The record-setting discovery of 68 projectiles from the Neolithic to the Viking Era also upends ideas on how ice both preserves and destroys archaeological finds.
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Lost Viking ‘highway’ revealed by melting ice
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Lost Viking ‘highway’ revealed by melting ice

1,000-year-old horseshoes, sleds, and tools are emerging from a shrinking ice patch in Norway, telling the story of the rise and fall of a mountain pass and the people who traveled along it.
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