When you find ancient horse dung covering the ice surface of your site, after another meter of ice has melted away 😳 Who were the many humans and animals that crossed the ice here long ago, and where were they going? Where are we heading? #climatechange Tweet added by Secrets Of The Ice @brearkeologi

Secrets Of The Ice

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When you find ancient horse dung covering the ice surface of your site, after another meter of ice has melted away 😳 Who were the many humans and animals that crossed the ice here long ago, and where were they going? Where are we heading? #climatechange

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St. Chad of Merica

@StChadOfMerica

5 years

@brearkeologi And why was it covered by ice? #climatechange

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Secrets Of The Ice

@brearkeologi

5 years

@fauxeyes Because the ice has been growing since humans and animals crossed the ice here (the Little Ice Age).

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Turtledove Norfolk - Stay by the Sea

@turtledovenorf1

5 years

@brearkeologi Taking herd across?

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Secrets Of The Ice

@brearkeologi

5 years

@turtledovenorf1 Could well be. We have a paper coming out where we present and discuss this site in more detail.

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Krystal

@everyrubicon

5 years

@brearkeologi Do you know where they came *from*?

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Secrets Of The Ice

@brearkeologi

5 years

@everyrubicon Yes, some of the travellers, but not all. We have a paper coming out where we discuss this site in more detail.

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(Dr) Rena Maguire

@justrena

5 years

@brearkeologi @osteoconnor You're sampling the coprolites, palynology etc of course???

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Secrets Of The Ice

@brearkeologi

5 years

@justrena @osteoconnor Yes.

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Secrets Of The Ice

@brearkeologi

5 years

@LisaWWilkins If we had been in the Alps, that would have been the ultimate find 🙂

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SoTexGooner

@javimireles

5 years

@brearkeologi So incredibly cool and incredibly scary. #ClimateChange

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Secrets Of The Ice

@brearkeologi

5 years

@SamaHyde That is one possibility, that human and animals rested when they reached the top. However, it may also be that this area has the best preservation conditions.

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Prof. Jason Box

@climate_ice

5 years

@brearkeologi We saw globules in spherical form recently on Greenland ice sheet margin, wish I’d gotten photos. Anyway, I believe them to be microbiological in origin, not otherwise. There are a lot of studies on the material that is called cryoconite.

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