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#1542 The Quest for the Wooly Mammoth

Listening to America

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The Importance of Preserving Archaeological Sites

An ice age sediment that's melting away it gives me really mixed feelings because if you if you think of a greek vase that was unearthed somewhere in the pelipinese and now is in a museum it's more fragile now than it was when it was in the ground where it was protected these megafauna and the other things that we're talking about are currently protected by permafrost. If global climate change is as dramatic as some believe that it will be this is going to change everything, he says. "These treasures are going to have to be found and preserved"

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