How Ice Helps to Preserve Food
What’s the secret to ice’s ability to preserve all of these materials? Because bacteria and other decomposers are unable to do their work due to the extreme cold. Bacterial decomposers are unable to function in extreme cold and oxygen deprivation, such as in the Arctic, thus anaerobic activity is not associated with them.
In the event that they do work, they may not be operating at the same rate as they would in a more temperate climate. The artifacts, whatever they may be, do not degrade because they are unable to function. In the mountains and cold regions of the deep north and south, scientists find the amazingly well-preserved bodies of these sacrifices, these ancient woolly creatures, and everything else they find.