Ice Age
Dargan cave findings reveal humans lived in Australia's Blue Mountains during last Ice Age
The findings upended long-held beliefs about how humans moved through the mountains and challenges long-held assumptions about ancient human life in Australia.
Famous Ice Age 'puppies' identified as wolf cubs
Archaeologists discover 20,000-year-old stone tools in South African caves, revealing Ice Age techn
Geological evidence links Late Antique Little Ice Age to fall of Roman Empire
How foragers built great fires when the Ice Age was at its coldest
A recent Geoarchaeology study led by William C. Murphree and colleagues investigates three combustion features at the Ukrainian site of Korman’ 9, dated to the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM).
After 46,000 years, once thawed the worm extracted from Arctic permafrost resumed normal activity
The nematode, officially named Panagrolaimus kolymaensis, was discovered at a depth of 40 meters inside a fossilized burrow of Arctic squirrels.
Ice Age American families pulled travois 22,000 years ago, White Sands discovery shows
Footprints of adults and children alongside drag marks indicate Ice Age families used travois to transport goods.
An Ice Age refuge: DNA of humans, wolves, mammoths retrieved from sediments in El Mirón cave
For the first time, researchers managed to recover DNA from sediment at a Cantabrian site.
Study reveals how Ice Age humans built mammoth-bone structures
Evidence suggests humans scavenged mammoth bones from existing bone beds over centuries.
30,000 years ago, European Ice Age children pierced their cheeks at age 10
A new research suggests that cheek piercings were popular as long ago as 30,000 years, with teenagers and children as young as 10 years old sporting labrets during the Ice Age.
Homeowner finds complete Ice Age mastodon jawbone while gardening in his Hudson Valley backyard
The discovery was made in the town of Scotchtown, about 70 miles from New York City.
Virginia Tech study reveals evidence of Earth's 'Plumeworld Ocean' era after last Ice Age
The findings suggest vast rivers of glacial meltwater rushed into the sea, pooling over dense salty ocean water.
Chill, Europe: When humans fled Europe over bad weather - study
“We suggest that these extreme conditions led to the depopulation of Europe,” write the authors of the study, “perhaps lasting for several successive glacial-interglacial cycles."
Ice core reveals Greenland was green 416,000 years ago - study
Prior to the study, it was previously thought that much of the ice sheet that covers the country today had persisted for the past 2.5 million years.
Warm ice age forever changed Earth’s climate cycles - study
Increased ocean temperatures and stronger monsoons created more moisture. This moisture fed growing ice sheets.
