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Journal of Glacial Archaeology, vol. 2

Lars Pilø

Posted on June 28, 2016

The archaeologists working with the frozen past have their own journal called “Journal of Glacial Archaeology”. It was published for the first time in 2014, and contained papers on e.g. Bronze Age Arrows from Oppdal, Norway and inca mummies from mountaintops in the Andes. The second volume is out now. Here we can find interesting papers from Norway, Switzerland …

Snowmelting by early August 2016

Lars Pilø

Posted on June 28, 2016

The time of the start of snowmelting and the summer temperature is of great importance for the conditions in the field for the glacier archaeologists. 2015 saw a late snowmelt and a cold summer in Oppland. The result was that there was no melting of old ice in the high mountains that year. In contrast, 2016 saw an …