Learn why drastic drops in temperature sent European hunter-gathers in search of a warmer place to live.

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 ...

Around 14,500 years ago, toward the end of the last ice age, melting continental ice sheets drove a sudden and cataclysmic ...

Now, new geological data show that sea levels rose about 125 feet (38 meters) between 11,000 and 3,000 years ago, according ...

which stretched from the British Isles to the Arctic seas during the last ice age. Such land deformation results from glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA), which describes how Earth’s crust ...

Earth's history is a roller-coaster of climate fluctuations, of relative warmth giving way to frozen periods of glaciation before rising up again to the more temperate climes we experience today.

and Asia have been rising for about 12,000 years since the end of the last ice age. This is why terms like mean sea level aren't as simple as they first appear and tend to really annoy ...