Scientists have typically attributed this acceleration to the greater climate fluctuations that have defined the recent Cenozoic era—the period encompassing both the Ice Age and our current warming, ...

Grab some wood from the corner store, set it up in your backyard fire pit, and strike a match. But how did our Ice Age ancestors do it? There actually isn’t much in the archaeological record to help ...

Whether for cooking, heating, as a light source or for making tools -- it is assumed that fire was essential for the survival of people in the Ice Age. However, it is puzzling that hardly any well ...

Explore the iconic woolly mammoth, the defining species of the Cenozoic Era. From their evolution to their impact on early humans, we dive into the life and extinction of these majestic creatures ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. To make it out of the last ice age alive, our ancestors needed a special set of skills. One of which was harnessing the power of ...

Testifying to the intensity of the era’s climate change, the rocks’ arrival in Iceland stresses that the Late Antique Little Ice Age was severe, with a wide variety of consequences around the time of ...

Scholars generally agree that fire was crucial to human survival during the most recent Ice Age—yet in Europe, there is surprisingly little evidence of hearths from its coldest years ...

A trio of researchers has found evidence of the impact of the Late Antique Little Ice Age on Iceland almost 1,500 years ago. In their paper published in the journal Geology, Christopher Spencer ...

some researchers have argued that this geologic era helped usher in the final days of Rome. Others, meanwhile, contend that the Late Antique Little Ice Age simply coincided with imperial decline.

houses one of the longest and most complete fossil records of plants and animals from the Cenozoic Era, which spans from approximately 66 million years ago to the present day. "Encompassing nearly ...