Archaeologists have unearthed rare artefacts dating to the last ice age at a cave in Australia’s Blue Mountains, providing definitive proof that the rugged ranges were once occupied by the continent’s ...

Today, all traces of where inhabitants once lived now lie beneath the waves. During the last Glacial Period (LGP or Last Ice Age), which began about 120,000 years ago and ended about 11,500 years ago, ...

University of Melbourne. (2013, February 13). Ice age extinction shaped Australian plant diversity. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2013 / 02 ...

More information: Amy M. Way et al, The earliest evidence of high-elevation ice age occupation in Australia, Nature Human Behaviour (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41562-025-02180-y.

A Rio Tinto Ltd forerunner failed to protect 18,000-year-old artefacts showing how people lived during the last Ice Age, part of destruction that the mining giant kept secret for decades, an ...

Australia was first settled by between 1,000 and 3,000 humans around 50,000 years ago, but the population crashed during the Ice Age before recovering to a peak of some 1.2 million people around ...

Sticks that date back to the end of the Last Ice Age indicate a ritual was likely passed down for 500 generations. By Laura Baisas Published Jul 1, 2024 11:00 AM EDT Get the Popular Science daily ...

"I keep coming back to Australian animals, there are so many fascinating ones. All the weird ones, all the interesting ones, are from Australia." So says Peter de Seve, the man from whose pencil ...

A Rio Tinto Ltd (RIO.AX) forerunner failed to protect 18,000-year-old artefacts showing how people lived during the last Ice Age, part of destruction that the mining giant kept secret for decades ...