Tag: Ice age
Were the Ice Ages in Europe less hostile to life than thought? – Knowledge
How quickly the cold came is difficult to say today. But she came, and she drove life before her. Glaciers advanced, and soon the ice covered large parts of the…
Archaeology: Why did the Vikings leave Greenland? – Knowledge
Of Jacob Wetzel Was Greenland really as green as the name suggests in Viking times? No one knows for sure, but it’s unlikely. The seafarer Erik the Red called the…
Extinction of the mammoth: man is innocent – knowledge
The dodo was found food for humans. The bird was fat, unable to fly and therefore easy prey. The dodos were grilled on a spit in so many numbers that…
Footprints indicate earlier colonization of America – knowledge
23,000 to 21,000 years ago, people trudged through the mud, alone and in small groups, on a lakeshore in what is now New Mexico, leaving their footprints. At least that…