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  • such as the growth of farming "settlements" and the spread of international trade networks
    a place where people come to live
  • Unless they’re protected from the microorganisms that cause "decay", they tend not to last long.
    damage
  • And growing Norwegian towns, along with export markets, would have created a booming demand for "hides" to fight off the cold, as well as "antlers" to make useful things like combs
    da/ sừng hươu nai
  • Extreme cold is one reliable way to keep artefacts relatively fresh for a few thousand years, but once thawed out, these materials experience "degradation" relatively swiftly.
    decline in quality
  • "Reindeer" once "congregated" on these icy patches in the later summer months to escape biting insects
    a kind of animal/ gather
  • Well above the treeline in Norway’s highest mountains, ancient fields of ice are "shrinking" as Earth’s climate warms.
    becoming smaller, reducing
  • Fieldwork is hard work - hiking with all our equipment, often camping on permafrost - but very "rewarding"
    satisfying