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Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past

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By James M. Deem
Publisher HMH Trade
Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past
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In 1991, mountain climbers on the Niederjoch Glacier on the ItalianAustrian border came across something unexpected a body. It had been a very warm summer, and five bodies had already turned up in the area. But something here was different. The materials found with the body suggested it might be very old, perhaps from the 1800s. But radiocarbon dating proved the iceman was 5,300 years older, from the Copper Age. He was named Otzi and he is the oldest human mummy preserved in ice ever found. James M. Deem takes us on a captivating and creepy journey to learn about glaciers, hulking masses of moving ice that are now offering up many secrets of the past.

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11462 words11,462 words
64 pages64 pages
Lexile 1180LLexile 1180L
Grade 6 to 9Grade 6 to 9
Age 11-14Age 11-14
Published 2008Published 2008

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Hear it ablation Hear it unmelted Hear it unsolved Hear it lithograph Hear it advent Hear it chicha Hear it atlatl Hear it tyrolean Hear it memento Hear it thighbone Hear it dairymaid Hear it unfit Hear it strenuous Hear it radiocarbon Hear it moraine Hear it sheath Hear it feat Hear it unbraided Hear it lottery Hear it desolate Hear it potlatch Hear it altimeter Hear it monogrammed Hear it glacial Hear it undamaged Hear it rustic Hear it misstep Hear it appease Hear it infancy Hear it precipice Hear it longbow Hear it simultaneous Hear it yew Hear it unaccustomed Hear it avid Hear it fissure Hear it windswept Hear it favorable Hear it renowned Hear it makeshift
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9780618800452

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