The oldest ice disappears and the Stone Age emerges from it

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...

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!

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?

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

Does this mean that the ice wasn't there during the stone age?

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.

Just wait for a few ancient-but-novel pathogens to start emerging too.

Including Stone Age diseases?

I wonder what we will find beneath Greenland's ice?

Hyperborea

Imagine if the water disappeared

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