Europe was no balmy paradise during the Ice Age, with the vast glaciers that blanketed large parts of the continent rendering wide swathes inhospitable for humans. But our species - a new ...

Now an international team of American, British, and Icelandic scientists think they may have located the main culprits behind the Little Ice Age: a quartet of massive eruptions by tropical volcanoes.

Using the largest dataset of human fossils from Ice Age Europe to date, an international research team shows how prehistoric hunter–gatherers coped with climate change in the period between ...

The genetic history of Ice Age Europe. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2016 / 05 / 160502131231.htm. Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

The most precise analysis yet of the onset of the “Big Freeze” reveals that Europe froze not in a decade—as previously thought from analysis of Greenland ice cores—but in less than 12 months.

This critical time period ends at the Last Glacial Maximum. This was the coldest period of the last ice age in Europe, and took place 24,000 to 19,000 years ago. Our data show that populations from ...

It may be that during the coldest phase of the last Ice Age, some 20,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers deliberately lit forest fires in an attempt to create grasslands and park-like forests.

Indeed, Neanderthals made Ice Age Europe their home for hundreds of thousands of years, so they obviously did something right. It’s easy to get hung up on their extinction, ...

The new genetic data, published May 2, 2016 in Nature, reveal two big changes in prehistoric human populations that are closely linked to the end of the last Ice Age around 19,000 years ago. As ...