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The age of melt : what glaciers, ice mummies, and ancient artifacts teach us about climate, culture, and a future without ice /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baril, Lisa (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, [2024]
Subjects:
Ice patch archaeology.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Arctic regions.
Arctic regions > History.
Climatic changes > Arctic regions.
Global warming > Arctic regions.
Glaciers.
Fouilles (Archéologie) > Arctique.
Arctique > Histoire.
Climat > Changements > Arctique.
Réchauffement de la Terre > Arctique.
glaciers (bodies of water)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The emergence of ice-patch archaeology
  • Murder in the Alps
  • How the little ice age shaped Western views of glaciers
  • Our ice-age origins
  • Archaeology with altitude
  • Digging into Norway's ice
  • Yukon hunters of the Alpine
  • Long ago person found
  • The world's oldest ice-patch artificat
  • Pilgrimage to the Andes
  • Glacier growers and ancient knowledge of the Himalayas
  • The future of ice-patch archaeology
  • Acknowledgments
  • Selected bibliography
  • Index.