Researchers have discovered fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited North America ...

A recent Geoarchaeology study led by William C. Murphree and colleagues investigates three combustion features at the ...

"The Tibetan Plateau was previously thought to be uninhabitable during the last glacial maximum," said Li. Evidence found in the region shows that humans lived on the Tibetan Plateau before and after ...

The last glacial maximum, which lasted from 26,500 to 19,000 years ago, was the most severe phase of the Late Pleistocene ice age. During this period, massive ice sheets and polar ice caps covered ...

During the glacial–interglacial cycles of the past half million years, it took well over 50,000 years for continental ice sheets to grow to their maximum extent. In contrast, the transitions ...