Posted on 08/17/2023 10:37:06 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Study Led by the University College London (Ucl) Suggests That an Extreme Cooling Period Approximately 1.1 Million Years Ago Likely Contributed to the Extinction of Early Human Populations in Europe.
Based on palaeoclimate evidence, the researchers found the occurrence of previously unknown extreme glacial conditions that pushed the European climate to levels beyond what archaic humans could tolerate, emptying the continent of human populations.
The earliest human remains discovered in Europe originate from Iberia and provide evidence that early humans had migrated from southwest Asia around 1.4 million years ago...
Researchers from UCL, the University of Cambridge, and CSIC Barcelona studied the chemical makeup of marine microorganisms and investigated the pollen composition within a deep-sea sediment core retrieved off the shores of Portugal.
This revealed the presence of abrupt climate changes that culminated in an extreme glacial cooling, with ocean surface temperatures off Lisbon dropping below 6°C and semi-deserts expanding on the adjacent land...
Together, the palaeoclimate data and human habitat model results indicate that Iberia, and more generally southern Europe, was depopulated during the Early Pleistocene. An apparent lack of stone tools and human remains over the next 200,000 years further raises the possibility of a long-lasting hiatus in European occupation.
Co-author Professor Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London said: "According to this scenario, Europe may have been recolonized around 900,000 years ago by more resilient humans with evolutionary or behavioural changes that allowed survival in the increasing intensity of glacial conditions."
(Excerpt) Read more at heritagedaily.com ...
And so it begins.
I still have a link to Robert's original site on my own web page, but it is no longer on the net. Searching for "iceagenow" leads to lots of other pages...some naysayers. Too bad. Robert had his ducks in a row. I have signed copies of both of his books.
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