A group of scientists has now been able to shed some light on the mystery of Ice Age fire. Their analysis of three hearths at a prehistoric site in Ukraine shows that people of the last Ice Age ...

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Scholars generally agree that fire was crucial to human survival during the most recent Ice Age—yet in Europe ... dating back to the heart of the Last Glacial Maximum. The ancient hearths ...

What sparked the formation of Earth’s vast ice sheets during the last ice age—and how did they spread so fast? New research may finally offer answers. A team at the University of Arizona has ...

Some of the rarest surviving examples of Ice Age art will go on display in Bradford as part of the 2025 City of Culture celebrations. The Ice Age Art Now exhibition is expected to contain more ...

the last western Roman emperor, but that doesn’t mean that Roman culture or influence disappeared overnight. The Late Antique Little Ice Age likely wreaked havoc on a society already weakened ...

It will open at Cliffe Castle Museum on June 21. The exhibition will present work by people living in Europe at the end of the last Ice Age, between 24,000 and 12,000 years ago. At this time ...

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 ...

Colossal Biosciences, the genetic engineering company working to bring back the woolly mammoth, has actually already brought back one of its extinct Ice Age cohabitants: the dire wolf. The Dallas ...

At this time, Earth was nearing the end of the last major ice age. “The Pleistocene was actually a very, very different world from what we see today. It’s only been in the last 10,000 years or ...