A 5,300-year-old antler shaped like an ice pick found in the melting ice. Photo from Brendan Gray “Every perishable artifact was found amongst a backdrop of millions of obsidian” artifacts ...

While scientists had previously located nearby obsidian quarries and artifacts in the park ... a 5,300-year-old antler ice pick, and a 6,200-year-old stitched animal hide, which may have been ...

Artifacts, bodies, and viruses frozen deep in ice for millions of years are now thawing out and washing to the surface; the warmer climate is also allowing archaeologists to navigate areas that ...

Science writer Baril debuts with a stimulating introduction to ice patch archaeology, the study of human artifacts preserved in ancient blocks of ice. She describes how the discipline began with ...

“We really need to work even harder to save as many of these artifacts as we possibly can.” For more than a decade, their team, which runs the Secrets of the Ice project, has scoured mountain ...

Other artifacts were made “using animal remains ... At another melting ice patch, a 5,300-year-old antler shaped like an ice pick was found. The three-pronged antler had one sharpened point ...