ALASKA CALLING

摘要

Imagine stepping back 10,000 years ago. In the northern reaches of modern-day Iraq, wheat and barley are cultivated for the first time. The last of the sabre-toothed cats go extinct. In New Zealand, the Southern Alps are completely under ice, and rising seas are sweeping across the once-connected landmass to create the North, South, and Stewart Islands.Half a world away, a stretch of coastline north of what is now British Columbia makes its first appearance from beneath an ice sheet that has dominated the landscape for 2.6 million years.