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 ...

Researchers in Vienna found three fireplaces from the coldest period of the Ice Age, also the most mysterious.

Learn what the rocks in Iceland tell researchers about climate conditions at the time of the Roman Empire's collapse.

The most recent period of glaciation, which many people think of as the "Ice Age", was at its height approximately ... three major cooling steps. At this time a continental-scale temperate ice ...

Ice Age climate shifts triggered major population changes in prehistoric Europe through migration and adaptation.

Learn more about the time period that took place 488 to 443 ... This heralded a 20-million-year ice age during which shallow, life-rich seas shrank away. Life at the start of the Ordovician ...

Although the team obviously can’t tie zircon minerals to the Roman Empire’s collapse, their lengthy migration inside frozen ...

An archaeological study of human settlement during the Final Palaeolithic revealed that populations in Europe did not ...

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 ...

Periods of rapid climate variability that occurred throughout the last Ice Age, during which time climate alternated between cold stadial conditions and relatively mild interstadial periods Proxy ...