Title:
The age of melt : what glaciers, ice mummies, and ancient artifacts teach us about climate, culture, and a future without ice / Lisa Baril.
ISBN:
9781643261515
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, [2024]
©2024
Physical Description:
240 pages ; 24 cm
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 artifact -- Pilgrimage to the Andes -- Glacier growers and ancient knowledge of the Himalayas -- The future of ice-patch archaeology -- Acknowledgments -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
Summary:
"An exploration of ice-patch archaeology and the ... story of how glaciers play a crucial role in human culture"--Flap page 1 of dust jacket.
Geographic Term:
OCLC Number:
on1420444222
Availability:
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