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A pair of 14,000-year-old "puppies" found melting out of the permafrost in Siberia have undergone genetic testing, proving ...

The ice age lasted from around 27,000 to 19,000 years ago. Archaeologists long believed that people returned to the Swabian Jura region in what is now southern Germany about 16,500 years ago.

New analysis of the remains of two 'puppies' dating back more than 14,000 years ago has shown that they are most likely ...

Clovis people inhabited North America during the twilight of the Ice Age, when a warming climate was reducing habitats for mammoths and other large plant-eaters. These animals were familiar with ...

Whether for cooking, heating, as a light source or for making tools -- it is assumed that fire was essential for the survival of people in the Ice Age. However, it is puzzling that hardly any well ...

While the findings from these three Ice Age hearths are indeed fascinating, they also pose more questions. "Did people not find enough fuel during the [Ice Age]?" Nigst pondered. "Did they not use ...

Evidence from a prehistoric site at the shore of the Dnister river in modern-day Ukraine shows that people living during the most recent ice age built different types of hearths. Wood served as ...

What they found offers a glimpse at how a cooling period called the Little Ice Age may have affected people in the region, the team reports February 12 in Frontiers in Climate. Previous studies of ...