Melting ice is leading to a archaeological gold rush in Yellowstone National Park, and archeologists can’t keep up. As climate change leads to large patches of ice melting all throughout the treasured region, artifacts from another era are exposing themselves all over.
Animal bones, wooden weapons, ancient tools and more are among the relics discovered by scientists in Yellowstone, according to Smithsonian Mag. Carbon dating has revealed that some of the items are over 5,000-years-old.
All of the artifacts have been discovered in the upper Rocky Mountains, where they have been preserved in ice patches for centuries until gradual climate change led to significant melting.
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