Melting out

Thanks to Brendan Conway for sending me a link to a BBC Future page.

Some years ago, I wrote a book about Ötzi the Ice Man.

I've since posted regular blogs when a story appears which updates the knowledge that we have about him.

The BBC Future article looks at the archaeology being revealed by melting glaciers.

There is even an Alpine German word for the process of things emerging from glaciers: "ausgeapert", meaning something is exposed by melting snow or ice. 

However, as global warming and record hot summers have sped up glacier loss, the melting ice has exposed an unprecedented, huge range of archaeological finds, Reitmaier says – sometimes baring thousands of years of history, all at once.

There is also a really useful update on the story of Ötzi and some recent discoveries.

In Switzerland, the IceWatcher app allows people to submit photos and information about things they find on or near glaciers.