Learn why drastic drops in temperature sent European hunter-gathers in search of a warmer place to live.

A new study sheds light on how prehistoric hunter-gatherer populations in Europe coped with climate changes over 12,000 years ...

An archaeological study of human settlement during the Final Palaeolithic revealed that populations in Europe did not decrease homogenously during the last cold phase of the Ice Age. Significant ...

Ice Age climate shifts triggered major population changes in prehistoric Europe through migration and adaptation.

Now, new geological data show that sea levels rose about 125 feet (38 meters) between 11,000 and 3,000 years ago, according ...

A new study published in Nature provides key insights into sea level rise after the last ice age, around 11,700 years ago. Using data from the North Sea region, researchers found that sea levels rose ...

The last glacial maximum, which lasted from 26,500 to 19,000 years ago, was the most severe phase of the Late Pleistocene ice age. During this period, massive ice sheets and polar ice caps covered ...

"Such a transition to a glacial state in 10,000 years' time is very unlikely to happen ... leading to researchers being able to predict that the next ice age will take place 10,000 years from ...

Precession is why the Pole Star changes over time. Currently Earth's rotational ... Specifically, they found that the end of any given ice age, the last of which was 11,700 years ago, is brought ...