Prehistoric people resilient in the face of extreme climate events
March 27, 2018 by Alistair Keely, University of York
Pioneering early people who lived at the end of the last ice age actually carried on with life as usual despite plummeting temperatures, a study at a world-famous archaeological site in North Yorkshire suggests.
Leading researchers, based at the University of York and Royal Holloway, University of London, found that a dramatic climate event with a sudden drop in average temperatures, severe enough to halt the development of woodland, had no substantial impact on human activity at Star Carr – a middle Stone Age archaeological site dating to around 9,000 BC.
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