An Austrian site occupied by humans from around 24,000 to 20,000 years ago documents a switch towards hunting reindeer for ...

Marinoan global glaciation lasting 4 million years confirmed; stable ice defies current climate models and biological ...

Learning to control fire was a game-changer for ancient humans, who could use it to cook food, see at night, and endure cold ...

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and Boise State University have found evidence suggesting that the ...

The Liberty Memorial Building on the Capitol grounds in Bismarck has housed the State Library in two separate periods of its ...

I meant to write this column last week but went down a John Wesley Powell rabbit hole instead. My plan had been to examine illogical, multiple-outlet watersheds draining into separate oceans, but I ...

The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), for example, was the iciest part of the most recent glacial period in Earth's current ice age – and presumably a great time to cozy up by a fire.

A new study published in Geoarchaeology reveals that Ice Age humans crafted hearths in the frozen steppe of Ukraine with such finesse that they achieved temperatures over 600°C. These were deliberate, ...

rather than a series of warm and cold periods. Taken together, the evidence allowed the researchers to pinpoint the time when the Marinoan glaciation began—approximately 639 million years ago ...

Melting glaciers 10,000 years ago sped up continental drift and volcanic activity, a process that could repeat as modern ice ...

Differences between the fireplaces suggest a clever and intentional use. Whether it was used for cooking, heating, lighting, ...