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And while the causes of these ice ages are still unknown ... an epoch that coincides with a cooling period in Earth’s recent history. “Only rarely does our cosmic neighborhood beyond the ...

Nearly 10,000 years ago, Earth came out of its most recent ice age. Vast, icy swaths of land around the poles thawed, melting the glaciers that had covered them for nearly 100,000 years.

Archaeologists from the Australian Museum, the University of Sydney and the Australian National University in collaboration ...

EARLY glaciologists wrote of ‘The Ice Age,’ next of ‘The Great Ice Age,’ and when it became obvious that there had been earlier refrigerations not inferior in intensity to the latest ...

Evidence from a prehistoric site at the shore of the Dnister river in modern-day Ukraine shows that people living during the most recent ice age built different types of hearths. Wood served as ...

Scholars generally agree that fire was crucial to human survival during the most recent Ice Age—yet in Europe, there is surprisingly little evidence of hearths from its coldest years ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. To keep warm during the most recent ice age, early humans needed ...

The planet was starting to move out of one of its more recent ice ages, although in the tropics there was little change in climate between the Ice Age glacial episodes and the warmer interglacial ...