Saving History From Climate Change
As Planet Warms, Resurfaced Relics Threatened; Climate change could destroy relics from the past before scientists can study them.
Patrick K. Kiger, June 17, 2016 (Seeker)
“Climate change and its various effects, from melting polar ice and thawing permafrost to rising sea levels and violent storms, are exposing ancient relics and remains at an increasing rate across the planet, threatening them with rapid deterioration and endangering a major source of our knowledge about the past…[S]ome archaeologists are so alarmed about the damage being done to these materials by global warming that they're urging colleagues to step away from their excavation sites and rush to preserve the suddenly-revealed specimens…[Recently-developed techniques, ranging from sequencing of ancient DNA to chemical analysis of tooth plaque that shed insights about an ancient human's diet, could provide a wealth of information about antiquity from once-frozen areas where] melting glaciers are exposing frozen remains of ancient humans and animals faster than researchers can recover them…” click here for more
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