Re: Have their been any archaeological expeditions to Antarctica?

On Aug 24, 3:49 am, "IEJ(Norah)" <1732johans...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 22, 11:20 pm, "benli...@xxxxxxxxxx" <benli...@xxxxxxxxxx>
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On Aug 23, 8:56 am, "IEJ(Norah)" <1732johans...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Aug 22, 10:31 am, Peter Alaca <p.al...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

benli...@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:22/08/2008 06:15:
On Aug 22, 3:06 pm, johnnymonic...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Jun 24, 3:41 pm, George <gbl...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jun 24, 6:54 pm, Scotius <yodas...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I wondered, because I read some years back that some scientists on
an expedition there had found fossils that must have existed in a
tropical climate. I know there's a lot of ice there to burrow through,
but considering that they would have access to fossils that would
probably be very well preserved, wouldn't it be worth it?
The only 'archaeology' or near relation in the Antarctic is the
restoration and protection of the earlier Antarctic expedition huts.
Paeloanthropology might be what you're looking for
I think that's a very good question. George, Tom, and Peter are also
correct. The search for evidence of deceased life would fall under the
heading of paleontology. Yet, I do think they are missing the point,
perhaps intentionally. It begs the question: if there is evidence of
life on Antartica why would there not be evidence of human life on
Antarctica? I have found a conspicuous absence of information on the
subject. Most of the outposts in Antarctica are state-run, scientific
research stations. Those that are privately run probably operate under
the jurisdiction of several world powers including Russia and The
United States. I hear of few journalists or ordinary citizens
inquiring on the subject of Antarctica. One would think we would be at
least be curious to know whether there was ever human life on
Antarctica (or any other form of prehistoric life, for that matter.)

Other forms of prehistoric life, yes. Just google "fossil/antarctica"
or something and you'll find lots. Human, no. Lots of people have been
looking around different parts of Antarctica for many years, and there
is simply no evidence of any human having reached the place before the
19th century AD.

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Now you are a bit out in the blue. There might be that not much been
published but there are an undergoing Dutch (!) archaeology project
called lashipa. Working in polarregions. One of the projects at
present take place in Prince Olav Harbour at South Georgia. Of course
not the inner parts of Antarctic, but still. There are more.

Then we can compare with Arctic where the non-coastal areas of the
real Arctic didn't see real archaeologic expeditions before 1990's.
<http://www.fof.se/?id=02214>

Back to Antarctic, it's true that the first attempts to perform
archaeology in Antarctic took a long time before they can be said to
have done more proper archaeologic work, but starting in 1980's they
did. <www.polarheritage.com/content/documents/11.pdf>

Inger E

Yes, and they are studying _historical_ archaeology, as the title
indicates. The remains of exploration, mining, whaling, etc. during
the 19th and 20th century. Exactly as we said.

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Mostly true of course. How ever there are lines in the text from the
last expedition where Swedish scientist were present indicating that
that's not all.
Some of the findings refered to doesn't speak for later centuries but
rather for older milleniums....

Inger E

What "lines in the text"? Either you can quote what they say, in
English, or this is just more Secret Swedish Sauce.

Ross Clark
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