TY - BOOK AU - Eamer,Claire AU - Shannon,Drew TI - Out of the ice: how climate change is revealing the past SN - 1771387319 PY - 2018///] CY - Toronto, ON PB - Kids Can Press KW - Ice patch archaeology KW - Juvenile literature KW - Excavations (Archaeology) KW - Arctic regions KW - Climatic changes KW - Global warming KW - History KW - Instructional and educational works KW - lcgft KW - Illustrated works N1 - Includes glossary and index (page 32) N2 - As the Earth's climate continues to warm, the permafrost melts, glaciers are receding and ice patches are shrinking. It is a unique time on our planet, one that has resulted in a treasury of preserved organic material (e.g., caribou droppings and human and animal remains) and inorganic artifacts (e.g., tools and clothing) is being revealed by the big melt, providing us with entirely new information about how people and animals lived up to several thousand years ago. But it's a race against time for archaeologists because as soon as the objects begin to thaw, they also begin to disintegrate ER -