Journal of Glacial Archaeology

Special Forum: Changes and Challenges in Glacial Archaeology

2023-02-10T12:59:40+00:00

Glacial Archaeology

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Glacial Archaeology in Yukon, Canada, 2018 to 2022

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Ice, Mountains, and People

2023-02-28T15:47:24+00:00

Overview of Interdisciplinary Ice Patch Research in the Greater Yellowstone Region, USA

2023-02-28T15:47:20+00:00

Through Thick and Thin Ice

2023-02-28T15:47:17+00:00

Glacial Archaeology Is Coming of Age

2023-02-10T13:34:06+00:00

Ice Covered Heritage

2023-02-28T15:47:12+00:00

A Glacial Archaeology Update from the Canton of Valais, Switzerland (and a call for citizen scientists)

2023-02-28T15:47:10+00:00

Glacial Archaeology in Inner Asia

2023-02-10T13:49:05+00:00

Climate Change and the Continued Preservation of the Arctic Archaeological Record

2023-02-28T15:49:57+00:00

Glacial Archaeology Goes Viral

2023-02-28T15:47:02+00:00

Frozen Pasts 5

2023-02-28T15:52:08+00:00

Frozen Pasts 5 (FP 5), the 5^th International Glacial and Ice Patch Archaeology Conference, occurred 7-10 September 2021 at Chico Hot Springs Resort midway between Yellowstone National Park and Bozeman, Montana, USA. The Frozen Pasts meetings are international gatherings of interdisciplinary researchers focusing on glacial and ice patch archaeology and related environments.

Ice Patch Archaeology in the Teton Mountains

2023-02-28T15:52:13+00:00

Since 2015, I have investigated 21 ice patches in the Teton Range, Wyoming and located one pre-contact and several post-contact artifacts. The pre-contact artifact is a modified whitebark pine stick that dates to 3158 to 2960 cal BP. The post-contact artifacts are one 1940s wallet, one carved Boy Scout walking stick, and two modified pine sticks that date to the contact/post-contact periods. I also collected paleobiological specimens, including wood samples from dead trees and bison bones that are used to reconstruct past tree line elevations, as proxies for paleoclimate regimes, and to reconstruct the pre-contact lifeways of bison in the higher elevations of the Greater Yellowstone Area. This article presents the combined results of these investigations and their implications for future ice patch research in the Tetons.

Sacred Mountanins and Their Oracles in the Equatorial Glacial Volcanic Arc

2023-02-28T15:47:43+00:00

During many decades the high altitude archaeology considered that the ceremonial constructions were ritual remnant practices exclusively of the central and southern Andean mountains, while at the northern Andes were not expected to be found any high ritual and religious offerings, because the snow- capped mountains were an obstacle for the pilgrimage. In this contribution we want to suggest that the ritual and sacrificial expression of aboriginal Andean people of the Ecuadorian Andes succeeded principally on the twins and oracles of the mountains (huauquis [brother]), that can be placed at the foots of the mountains or at the bottom of the glacier in icy ambient. The continuity of the sacrificial cults in both cases can be documented since pre-hispanic epochs to the present.