Against The Time
With a new branch of archaeology comes new challenges, such as reaching the artifacts before the exposure to the sun destroys them. For example, if those hikers hadn’t found Otzi when they did, one of the most famous historical discoveries might have withered away from the elements. A narrow escape!
There’s a precious time window between the ice melting and the artifacts being too decomposed to study. As a result, scientific institutions have given archaeologists more funding to conduct surveys in areas where climate change has caused permanent ice to melt. Thus, there is a tiny window for archaeologists to get going!