Global warning = more amazing archaeological finds

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
3/22/2013
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)

Pre-Viking woolen tunic just one of the many treasure troves brought by melting ice

Global warming, climate change brought upon the earth by excessive carbon emissions from mankind are usually seen as a negative. There are worries about changes in the ecology, with droughts, floods and other issues. The one good thing that can be said about global warming is that a lot of things about humanity's past are being found with the advent of the melting ice and tundra.

Researchers say that the greenish-brown, loose-fitting outer clothing is suitable for a person up to about five feet, nine inches tall.

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LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - One of the most recent discoveries has been a pre-Viking woolen tunic found beside a thawing glacier in south Norway. This shows how global warming is proving something of a boon for archaeology.

Researchers say that the greenish-brown, loose-fitting outer clothing is suitable for a person up to about five feet, nine inches tall. The garment was found 6,560 feet above sea level on what may have been a Roman-era trade route in south Norway. Carbon dating showed it was made around 300 A.D.

"It's worrying that glaciers are melting but it's exciting for us archaeologists," Danish archaeologist Lars Piloe said at the first public showing of the tunic. The item has been studied since it was found in 2011.

Other treasures discovered have been a Viking mitten dating from 800 A.D. and an ornate walking stick, a Bronze Age leather shoe, ancient bows, and arrow heads used to hunt reindeer are also among 1,600 finds in Norway's southern mountains since thaws accelerated in 2006.

"This is only the start," Piloe says. He predicts many more finds.

An ancient wooden arrow had a tiny shard from a seashell as a sharp tip in an intricate bit of craftsmanship.

The discovery of Otzi in 1991, a prehistoric man who roamed the Alps 5,300 years ago between Austria and Italy, is the best known glacier find. Other finds have been made from Alaska to the Andes, many because glaciers are receding.

The shrinkage is blamed on climate change, stoked by man-made emissions of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels.

The tunic find proves that Norway's Lendbreen glacier had not been so small since 300 A.D. When exposed to air, untreated ancient fabrics can disintegrate in weeks because of insect and bacteria attacks.

"The tunic was well used - it was repaired several times," said Marianne Vedeler, a conservation expert at Norway's Museum of Cultural History. Only a handful of similar tunics have survived so long in Europe.

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Keywords: Viking, climate change, global warming, archaeological finds, Denmark

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1 - 8 of 8 Comments

Jerry N
1 month ago
"The shrinkage is blamed on climate change, stoked by man-made emissions of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels."

Whenever someone uses the phrase "...stoked by man-made emissions...", it's a certain bet that the author is a radical propagandist who cares nothing about science or the factual evidence that contradicts almost every claim made by the global warming religion zealots.
TanMan
1 month ago
Anybody know how much carbon emissions a volcano puts out?
Tom
1 month ago
As I'm reading this article, I look outside there is six inches of snow on the ground. This is the longest winter I remember. Where is the warming? Thirty Years ago science knew that the planet was headed toward another ice age, do to the influence of man. When are these hypocrites going to make up their collective minds.
Global Alliance
1 month ago
never mind about archaeological finds: the fact is that 2000 years of ongoing growth=overpopulating humans has produced the global debt=inflation=growth=natural habitat destruction=biodiversity extinction other than plagues and pests=toxic/radioactive contamination of the global life support system=wastelaying the planet with billions of tons of rubbish=depletion of finite resources including food, water and energy=climate change. Now why would anyone in their right mind want more growth; more debt; more overpopulation?
Scottrisser
1 month ago
Yes. The fact that this stuff was under the snow is direct, scientific, indisputable proof of warmer climes of the past. Just don't confuse the Warner's with facts. They want all of us to be third world instead of the true plan of raising all up to higher living standards. Not very catholic view to me no matter what a few misguided Vatican scientists say. Their view is not dogma but input.
Raimo Kangasniemi
1 month ago
Man was influencing climate - although more subtly - already then. Especially the great empires from Rome to China in Eurasia were felling trees turning forests into farmland and grasslands and burning wood and coal. Their activity is clearly seen as a spike in climate data.

These artifacts now found would not have been deposited on solid ground in most cases, but lost on already existing glaciers, and then quickly buried under snowfall and soon embedded in the glacier itself. Many of them would have been also lost in somewhat higher altitudes, with the slow flow of the glacier bringing them down the mountainside.
J. Bob
1 month ago
Another case which show that the earth was just as warm in what was known as the Roman Warm Period. During this time grapes were also grown in England.

So if it was was warm back then, with much less human activity, it would fly in the face that man is causing more CO2, which in turn is causing global warming.

Again it shows that those who promote man causing global warming, may have to go back to the drawing boards. That is, we need more government $'s to refute these recent discoveries.
Roger
1 month ago
If these things are being found Under the ice, doesn't that mean the earth was warmer than it is now?
Long before mankind had any way to emit carbon dioxide other than breathing.

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