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Unraveling a 1,000-Year-Old Anthropological Conundrum: A Race to Save the Artifacts
By Doug Cook
Archaeologist Genny LeMoine, curator at the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, touched down in northwest Greenland on a mission. She was in a race against time to uncover artifacts before they are lost forever to a combination of factors resulting from climate change.
Experience the drama of this quest in a multimedia storytelling format featuring videos, photography, animation, and more
.
Published October 11, 2017
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