For decades, scientists puzzled over two key climate mysteries. What sparked the formation of Earth’s vast ice sheets during ...

Evidence from a prehistoric site at the shore of the Dnister river in modern-day Ukraine shows that people living during the ...

The unexpected discovery of Greenland rocks in Iceland hints that a centuries-long cold snap may have helped finish off the Western Roman Empire.

Whether for cooking, heating, as a light source or for making tools—it is assumed that fire was essential for the survival of ...

A team of archeologists in South Africa had to climb to new heights to find an important set of tools made by humans about 20 ...

The British Museum has announced that it will loan "some of the rarest surviving examples" of Ice Age art to Bradford, the ...

The research shows how fast sea level rose about 11,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, the last time Earth warmed as fast as it is warming now. The findings suggest sea level jumped by ...

New research reveals that post-ice age sea levels rose over a meter per century during key periods and totaled about 38 ...

Now, new geological data show that sea levels rose about 125 feet (38 meters) between 11,000 and 3,000 years ago, according to a study published March 19 in the journal Nature. The findings could help ...

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 ...