Melting ice patches in Canada and Norway reveal missing chapter of human history (Full Documentary)

A mystery is emerging out the Yukon ice: ancient human hunting tools hidden for as long as 9,000 years have started to melt out.
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Chapters
▷ 00:00 - Introduction
▷ 01:12 - Unprecedented melting of ice patches reveals the oldest preserved artifact in Canada
▷ 05:30 - The discover of Atlatl arrows, an ancient hunting tool found to be more sohphisticated than modern darts
▷ 10:45 - The surprising discovery of caribou dung led to discovery of thousand-year-old artifacts
▷ 15:47 - Why were these artifacts so high up in the mountains?
▷ 18:48 - Not just artifacts, but family heirlooms, telling the story of the land
▷ 22:15 - In Norway, ice patches are also melting and revealing secrets
▷ 27:21 - Comparing metal arrow points found at viking burial sites with newly discovered ones
▷ 31:30 - Scientifically dating artifacts and creating an impressive collection
▷ 34:18 - A cultural rebirth for the Yukan Native people
▷ 37:32 - The story of the Kennewick man - a body found in the ice that sparked debate over who could claim the body
▷ 42:08 - Scientists discover that Kwäday Dän Tsʼìnchi, another body found in the ice, has living relatives
▷ 44:51 - The Sami people of Norway also hoping that archeology can help them reclaim part of their culture
▷ 48:07 - A period of dramatic change in arhceological opportunities / Finding the perfect piece
▷ 51:51 - Credits

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“I’m not exaggerating,” says archeologist Greg Hare, “to say that most archeologists would die and found they’d gone to heaven to be able to find something like this,” says Hare. “The opportunity to find something like this that’s just melted out of the ice after a thousand years, it’s just incredible

“My mind immediately goes to ‘what’s the story behind it,” says Math’ieya Alatini, chief of the Kluane First Nation. For her people, the archeology is personal. In 1999 some hunters found the pre-contact remains of a young man melting out of the ice.

“You now have a body,” says Diane Strand of the Champagne Aishihik FN, “you now have a relative.”

He was named Kwäday Dän Ts'ìnchi: Long Ago Man Found. The remains of his stomach were preserved enough to figure out his last meals, and where he’d eaten them. He was traveling when he died on the ice. His clothing, his tools – all of them together created the narrative of man who lived before the time of contact. It was unprecedented.

By 2016 Hare and his team were still making new discoveries – all caught on camera.

“The opportunity to find something like this that just melted out of the ice after a thousand years, it’s incredible.”

Original title: Secrets from the Ice
A film by Andrew Gregg
2017 © Licensed by Jambika Docs

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