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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Image Credit: Dr Christopher Spencer, Queen's University, Canada) Though the collapse of the Roman Empire can be tied to a variety of factors, recent research has suggested that an ice age began on ...

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 ...

This is one of the human groups that frequented the Pyrenean Mountains during the period known as the Last Glacial Maximum, or Ice Age. These Homo sapiens – nomadic hunter-gatherers who ...

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 ...

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 ...

Japan's "employment ice age generation," now in their 40s to 50s, faces an increasing risk of being in poverty when they are older even if they fully receive basic pension benefits. Due to low ...

Around 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading in the Atlantic Ocean, may have temporarily sped up—with a little help ...

Even during the Ice Age, when glaciers covered much of the landscape, Cerdanya was still passable. They will spend a few days there, perhaps hunt a horse or a goat and meet neighbouring ...