Cold, dry climate shifts linked to Neanderthal disappearance0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- August 29, 2018
Ancient periods of cold and dry climate helped our species replace Neanderthals in Europe, a study suggests.
Ancient periods of cold and dry climate helped our species replace Neanderthals in Europe, a study suggests.
Earth’s ice is melting at a rapid clip today. But some scientists think that during several ancient episodes, the planet plunged into a deep freeze known as “Snowball Earth,” when ice sheets grew to cover almost the entire planet.
A CLIMATE study published this week threatens to radically change the way we understand the causes of changes in global climates and how we could be caught in a 405,000-year-long cycle of shifting climate.
An international collaboration of scientists, led by the University of Leicester in the UK, has investigated by combining climate models and chemical analyses of fossil shells about 1mm long