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changes that occurred during the last ice age
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Analysis of the core showed, in extraordinary detail, how temperatures in central Greenland had varied during the last ice age, which in the U.S. is called the Wisconsin.
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Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
These finds challenge the accepted notion of when our ancestors first crossed into America via the Bering Land Bridge between Siberia and Alaska during the last ice age.
—Martin Broen, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Oct. 2024
The event, according to research, may have triggered a 1000-year-long ice age, wiping out many large animals, including mammoths, and dramatically marking the growth of human civilization.
—Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
But wolf advocates say one difference here is that humans were to blame for this loss, not an ice age, not an asteroid, not volcanic eruptions.
—Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 29 July 2024
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Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
These finds challenge the accepted notion of when our ancestors first crossed into America via the Bering Land Bridge between Siberia and Alaska during the last ice age.
—Martin Broen, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Oct. 2024
The event, according to research, may have triggered a 1000-year-long ice age, wiping out many large animals, including mammoths, and dramatically marking the growth of human civilization.
—Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
But wolf advocates say one difference here is that humans were to blame for this loss, not an ice age, not an asteroid, not volcanic eruptions.
—Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 29 July 2024
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“Ice age.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20age. Accessed 7 Nov. 2024.
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