Published by admin on 05 Oct 2009 at 08:48 am
Global Warming Opens New Field in Anthropology
Anyone who doubts global warming is a reality should talk with UNM Professor of Anthropology James Dixon. He spends part of his summers on glaciers in Alaska, documenting artifacts the retreating glacial ice has left behind. Dixon, director of the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, says he found arrows with the feathers still attached and a stone spear point still bound to the shaft by sinew. They were frozen in the ice more than a thousand years ago. The ice preserved many of the arrows so well he can tell what kind of bird the feathers came from and the kinds of knots the hunters used.
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