An ancient glacier high in the French Alps has revealed the oldest known ice in Western Europe—dating back over 12,000 years ...

But initial steps towards civilization — harvesting, then domestication of crop plants — began only around 10,000 years ago, with the first civilizations appearing 6,400 years ago.

Researchers have identified the oldest known glacier ice in the European Alps, originating from the last Ice Age. US-based ...

Comets, Ice Age, And Human Civilization Why was North America once covered in ice? How could a comet strike have helped to shape our planet as we know it?

Glaciers hold layers of history preserved in ice, offering unique insights into Earth's past that can also help us interpret ...

Why did we take so long to invent civilisation? Modern Homo sapiens first evolved roughly 250,000 to 350,000 years ago. But initial steps towards civilisation – harvesting, then domestication of crop ...

Archaeologists found 115,000-year-old human footprints where they shouldn't be—and they just might rewrite the history of ...

Two rock chips, taken from a now-underwater site on Lake Huron where Ice Age hunters once roamed, are about 2,500 miles from where they originated.

While most people still worry about global warming, I am more concerned about the next Ice Age. A glaciation would present a serious problem for survival of our present civilization, akin to a nuclear ...

But initial steps towards civilization—harvesting, then domestication of crop plants—began only around 10,000 years ago, with the first civilizations appearing 6,400 years ago. For 95 percent of our ...

Strikingly, this transition happened only after the ice age megafauna – mammoths, giant ground sloths, giant deer and horses – disappeared. The reasons humans began farming still remain unclear , but ...