It's known as an interglacial period, or a time between ice ages. The current period should be a stable interglacial, which means the next ice age would begin in about 10,000 years, the ...

“We know that fire was widespread before and after this period ... well-preserved hearths from this time? “Was most of the evidence destroyed by the ice-age-typical, alternating freezing ...

A study on this time period was recently published in the journal ... environment for the first time since this massive ice ...

In an ice age, temperatures will fluctuate between ... years ago with the start of the current interglacial period. During that time, the planet was much cooler than it is now.

"We know that fire was widespread before and after this period, but there is little evidence from the height of the Ice Age," explained ... the World Around the Same Time, by Groups of People ...

(The ice age itself began approximately 2.6 million ... "The main reason that we're interested in this broad time period around 1 million years ago is because it's a time when we have a shift ...

“This study showed that the planet experienced these short, sudden episodes of burning, and they happened at the same time as these other big ... spiked during abrupt climate change periods during the ...

Prof Kentridge added: “The implications are that Ice Age hunter-gatherers didn’t simply live in their present, but recorded memories of the time when past events had occurred and used these to ...

Lines, dots and other symbols painted in caves during the last Ice Age may be the earliest ... of records of animals that lived in the time period, including aurochs (now extinct cattle species ...

The Little Ice Age was a period of global cooling that began during ... To piece together Earth’s history from this time, scientists can use ice cores, sediment samples, and pollen.