Ancient Ice

The headline on this 2/25/25 Business Insider article refers to these artifacts as coming from melting glaciers.   The article more accurately describes these as ice patches.  The difference is that glaciers crush down under pressure and little survives undamaged.  Ice fields (or ice patches, as the body of the article labels them) are not mobile; they are very, very old patches of snow and ice still on the surface:

"Norway is at the forefront of this emerging field of research, called glacial archaeology. With about 4,500 artifacts discovered, the country claims more than half of the planet's glacial archaeology findings, according to Espen Finstad, who co-leads the Norwegian program, called Secrets of the Ice.

"Archaeologists there are piecing together clues about ancient industries and trade routes across the glaciers."

While the article had the obligatory reference to global warming,  the bigger question is why were humans up in these frozen areas thousands of years ago?  The answer should be obvious: these areas are just now returning to temperatures that they were at in earlier eras.  We are returning to temperatures that have been typical in the past.