BREAKING THE ICE

One of the benefits of global warming?

Yeah . . . i thought the same thing. However, we had better hurry to do any sea shore archaeology, because in about a century, sea levels are gonna rise 10 to 20 feet.

Im looking for any published pollen data from these ice patches. It appears that, the cultural levels are all in some "ice out" area that later became ice covered , the Indians then moved away (Apparently RATHER ABRUPTLY) and these artifacts were encapsulated in the ice.
Now the ice is retreating and all these finds are being made.
Perhaps thay need to carry a flatbed truck with polythene glycol(which is what they flood sprayed all over the VAsa for years inorder to save and harden the wood planks that began to rot the instant that the boat was pulled out of the cold anoxic waters).
Things like clothing and bags and wooden effigies are rare artifacts in Paleo Indian middens due to rapid decay.

seems I was incorrect about use of PEG in such n environment. The Texas A&M conservation site reccomnded some of the following solutions to be used on textiles or plant fibre artifacts



seems they go more for some kind of "Super Glue" compounds

The Mary Rose was excavated from the bottom of the Solent where it lay for hundreds of years, and as such has to be kept wet. It's a very interesting exhibition, but it stinks, the dank smell you get when you leave wet unwashed clothing in a plastic bag for a month.

They don't tell you that when they advertise the exhibition.

The Yin and Yang of things.

Melting ice because...? Climate change or because the magma chamber's rising?

No, that'd be the melting polar region exposing oil for the Russians and US to fight over.