The oldest ice disappears and the Stone Age emerges from it
148 points - yesterday at 7:51 PM
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pugworthy yesterday at 11:02 PM
To be clear, so far some of the oldest ice found is over 6 million years old...
https://news.oregonstate.edu/news/six-million-year-old-ice-d...
assimpleaspossi today at 1:03 AM
So this means these areas were once not ice covered? Does this mean the area is returning to what it was a thousand years ago? And, back then, this was the normal or is ice covering the normal?
chrisco255 yesterday at 9:48 PM
What's most impressive to me is how razor sharp the slate arrowhead they show in the top photo is. I've seen photos of many stone age arrowheads but they are usually much more dull and blunted.
lexicality yesterday at 10:07 PM
I'm slightly surprised they're just holding these artefacts with bare hands. I thought that was generally a no-no for dealing with objects untouched for thousands of years
autoexec yesterday at 11:53 PM
Sure, our actions and inaction regarding climate change threaten the very future of humanity, but on the bright side we're going to learn so much about human history in the process!
PowerElectronix yesterday at 8:45 PM
Does this mean that the ice wasn't there during the stone age?
gAI yesterday at 9:30 PM
Including Stone Age diseases?
skeledrew yesterday at 11:56 PM
Just wait for a few ancient-but-novel pathogens to start emerging too.
mikert89 yesterday at 9:22 PM
Hyperborea
bpbp-mango yesterday at 10:34 PM
I wonder what we will find beneath Greenland's ice?
pestatije today at 12:30 AM
Imagine if the water disappeared
peatweald today at 1:47 AM
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dyauspitr yesterday at 8:24 PM
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