In a nutshell A mammoth ivory boomerang discovered in a Polish cave is likely between 42,290 and 39,280 years old, making it ...

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.

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.

University of Huddersfield. (2012, May 8). Refugees from the Ice Age: How was Europe repopulated?. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2012 / 05 ...

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 ...

New research reveals that the hunter-gatherer people who dominated Europe 30,000 years ago sought refuge from the last Ice Age in warmer places, but only those who sheltered in what is now Spain ...

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 ...

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.

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.