Ice Age
Europe’s summer heatwave reveals Ice Age mammoth bones, sunken Nazi relics in receding Danube River
Near Opatovac, Croatia,receding water levels have also begun to reveal a shows the wreckage of the Hungarian cargo ship Fulton which sunk in the Danube in 1937 while transporting coal.
Prehistoric people in Eurasia, North America specifically hunted female mammoths, new study shows
“Unbelievable”: Tourists smash 10,000-year-old, 90 kg mammoth tusk
Researchers discover world’s oldest sewn hide, dated to Ice Age, in Oregon caves - study
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.
