Ice Age

Archaeologists discover 20,000-year-old stone tools in South African caves, revealing Ice Age techn

"Finding the same tools and the same methods used to make these tools across this entire country suggests that people were connecting with each other over long distances."

 Archaeologists discover 20,000-year-old stone tools in South African caves, revealing Ice Age technological sophistication.
 Geological evidence links Late Antique Little Ice Age to fall of Roman Empire.

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. Illustration.

How foragers built great fires when the Ice Age was at its coldest

 Permafrost areas.

After 46,000 years, once thawed the worm extracted from Arctic permafrost resumed normal activity


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.

 Ancient American families pulled travois 22,000 years ago, White Sands discovery shows.

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.

 Aerial view of an autumnal landscape of beech forest in Ramales de la Victoria village within Alto Ason Natural Park of Cantabria Autonomous Community of Spain.

Study reveals how Ice Age humans built mammoth-bone structures

Evidence suggests humans scavenged mammoth bones from existing bone beds over centuries.

 Mammoth bones.

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.

 30,000 years ago, European Ice Age children pierced their cheeks at age 10.

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.

 The mastodon jaw.

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.

 Steam rising up off river.

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."

 Artistic depiction of an ancient human.

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.

 THE MELTING Sermeq glacier, located around 80 km. south of Nuuk, is photographed in this aerial over Greenland, last September. Since last Rosh Hashanah, Greenland has lost 250 billion tons of ice.

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.

 Artistic depiction of wooly mammoths. (creative commons)

Study explains how primordial life survived on 'Snowball Earth'

"Compared to the most recent Ice Age, glacier coverage was much more extensive and, more importantly, much of the ocean was frozen," Xiao said.

Planet Earth globe

Rising Antarctic ice melt will dramatically slow global ocean flows - study

Deep ocean water flows from the Antarctic could decline by 40% by 2050, according to a study published on Wednesday in the journal Nature.

 An aerial view of the 200-foot-tall (60-meter-tall) front of the Getz Ice Shelf with cracks, in Antarctica, in this 2016 handout image.