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...methods as well as the old ones are being applied all over the world, from Afghanistan to the Arctic and from Central America to Central Europe. The information that they yield is filling gaps in the long history of human culture...
...Ancient Arctic. The archaeology of the Arctic, until recently, has been almost a blank. But as hardy diggers continued to learn more about the barren lands, earlier Arctic peoples are coming to light. They are quite different from the Eskimos, and they extend many thousands of years into prehistory...
...change of sea level is fairly well known. In the lowest house sites, Dorset relics are mixed with those of Thule Eskimos, who must have eventually taken over. At the other end of the time scale, the diggers found dim traces of an even earlier people. Apparently the forbidding Arctic has a long human history...
...gradual warming of the arctic climate (TIME, July 26) may eventually make the barren lands flow with milk and honey. But as the warm temperature moves northward, its shift produces unpleasant as well as pleasant effects. Last week Dr. Rene Pomerleau, of the Canadian government's forest pathology laboratory, warned that birch forests are dying all over northern New England and eastern Canada. After a few seasons of unusually high soil temperatures, the trees die back at the tops. Already, said Pomerleau, much timber has been affected. If the dying trees are not harvested soon, fungi will destroy them...
...ARCTIC STEEL PLANT will soon make Norwegian heavy industry virtually self-sufficient for the first time. Huge new plant, built by British and German firms at a cost of $100 million, is being completed at Mo i Rana, near the Arctic Circle, will be ready early next year. Initial production: 200,000 tons of rolled-steel products yearly...