Younger dryas

Human prehistory is a more mysterious time than we've previously understood. Climate data has revealed the earth went through violent changes during the shift out of the last ice-age. Did the Younger Dryas period influence the rise of human society? In this article, we explore the causes of one of the most critical periods of human evolution.

Scientists discovered an impact crater in Greenland buried under a half mile of ice. It may re-ignite an old debate about the Younger Dryas period.

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Adriane here- Every Semester, the University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Geosciences offers the class Introduction to Geology. The course is designed for undergraduate students who need …

A global cataclysm such as the Younger Dryas event could have easily plunged humanity back into the stone age.

Graham Hancock discusses evidence for a global cataclysm 12,800 years ago by way of comet impacts.

Size comparison of man to several extinct North American megafauna of the Pleistocene epoch: the wooly rhinoceros, Paraceratherium, the large bear dog Amphicyon, and the giant ground sloth Megatherium.

(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with the University of Connecticut, Harvard University and the Hebrew University in Israel has found that climate conditions in the southern Levant during the Younger Dryas were as cool as other studies have shown, but conditions were not as dry as expected. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team describes their study of gazelle teeth fossils, believed to have come from victims of human hunters during the Younger…

A cluster of comet fragments believed to have hit Earth nearly 13,000 years ago may have shaped the origins of human civilisation, research suggests.