Rocks from Greenland found on Iceland's west coast could link the late Roman Empire's fall to a spell of sudden climate change. But historians say that the real story is likely much more complicated.

Researchers studied the details along the edges of blades and stones to determine what manufacturing techniques were used at the time, which coincided with the end of the last major Ice Age when ...

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Their findings show that Ice Age humans built different types of hearths and used mainly wood, but possibly also bones and fat, to fuel their fires. It is widely assumed that a key tool for human ...

A trio of researchers has found evidence of the impact of the Late Antique Little Ice Age on Iceland almost 1,500 years ago. In their paper published in the journal Geology, Christopher Spencer ...

According to a recent study, the Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA), a climate crisis in the 6th century lasting 200 to 300 years, may have contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire ...

The offbeat account of how the remains of these Ice-Age giants were discovered in a little-known and diabolically difficult cave is told in an award-winning, light-hearted documentary called ...

(Image Credit: Dr Christopher Spencer, Queen's University, Canada) Though the collapse of the Roman Empire can be tied to a variety of factors, recent research has suggested that an ice age began on ...

Scientists in Vienna made a groundbreaking discovery of three fireplaces that shed new light on the coldest and most mysterious period of the Ice Age. The prehistoric use of fire for cooking ...

Scholars generally agree that fire was crucial to human survival during the most recent Ice Age—yet in Europe, there is surprisingly little evidence of hearths from its coldest years ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. To make it out of the last ice age alive, our ancestors needed a special set of skills. One of which was harnessing the power of ...