toward the end of the last ice age. It’s possible that they reached North America more than 32,000 years ago. Now, “we need lots more sites to make sense of where they came from and by what ...

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

Scholars generally agree that North America witnessed some rapid climate adjustments as it shook off the Ice Age beginning about ... to the one that closed the Pleistocene. The dearth of evidence ...

By determining which ice sheets melted to create a colossal increase in sea levels 14,500 years ago, scientists hope to ...

During the last ice age, massive continental ice sheets up to five km high covered much of North America and northern Europe (the Laurentide and Fennoscandian ice sheets, respectively).

Around the world, on separate continents with no contact with each other, multiple groups of ancient humans invented farming ...

The vast frozen terrain of Arctic permafrost thawed several times in North America within the past 1 million years when the world's climate was not much warmer than today, researchers from the United ...

New geological data has given more insight into the rate and magnitude of global sea level rise following the last ice age, ...

A strange cast of ferocious predators and giant herbivores lived here during the ice age. Graham Duggan Most archeologists agree that human beings reached North America 14,000 years ago ...

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 ... older sites farther north in the plateau's ...