Research project GLAS – Glacial Archaeology in Sápmi

Climate change is a fact. Glaciers and snow patches are melting and revealing long lost archaeological artifacts that can help us understad human and animal past. As well as, get a better grip of climate changes. In collaboration with Jamtli, Silvermuseet/INSARC, Ájtte, Norrbotten- and Västerbottens County museums, we are surveying metling glaciers and snow patches in the high alpine areas in Swedish Sápmi.

Interdisciplinary

This is an interdisciplinary program that gather archaeologists and geologists, specialised in the history, archaeology, geology, glaciology and climate history of northern Sweden and Sápmi.

Finds

Finds of artifacts and ecofacts of past human and animal presence is of interes here. An interest also lays in the vegetation history.