Mysterious Artifacts Emerge From Melting Ice on Alps Glaciers

Hikers and mountaineers are stumbling on mysterious ancient objects in the Swiss Alps, and their discoveries are keeping archaeologists busy.

From the Iron Age to the Ancient Romans to the Middle Ages, people traveled across the Alps's icy mountain passes with cows, mules, oil, wine, skis, weapons, and more.

Their lost or abandoned belongings are now surfacing as the mountains' glaciers melt, revealing clues about past civilizations and eras.

Archaeologists gave Business Insider an inside look at some of their most mysterious and most revealing discoveries.

Melting glaciers in the Swiss Alps are revealing objects that humans have left behind over the ages.



https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-artifacts-emerge-from-melting-ice-on-alps-glaciers

These objects aren't mysterious to most fiber artists, they're broken distaffs, spindles, and ceramic spindle whorls. I don't know about the carved figure, he's a bit censorious looking to be a child's doll and is more likely to be a household god or ancestor figure, lost when the household was moving to a high summer pasture, maybe. I doubt they missed him much.