This was one of my first Goodreads ARC wins that I was looking forward to, and 
Baril's look into a very niche topic-the human artifacts found in melting perennial ice patches-was a wonderful dive into a small but fascinating aspect of anthropology and climatology. One thing I greatly appreciated Baril's writing was how she always wished and worked to humanize and bring to life the people behind each discovery; from the murder of Otzi to the caribou hunters who knew the herd better than the species itself. This extended sometimes into an almost fantastical degree, but I think making these "anicent people" more human is so important, especially because they had the sme brains and bodies as us, and we can't forget that.

For me, the story that stayed embedded in my brain the longest was about the hunting blinds found-or more accurately: rediscovered-in the Yukon and how, 9000 years later, the people who built them outsmarted us. It's always so humbling and fascinating to learn just how well people used to know their lands; the animals, the climates, the ebb and flow of herds and glaciers.

My only major complaint was that the story felt... A bit repetitive. I suppose there's only so many ways you can write about old arrows being discovered in ice patches, and it did dip more into a travelogue than a scientific writing, but I still learned a lot about ice coring (who knew they had to melt the ice to analyze it?) and Baril's expressive stroytelling made this for a compelling read.