Climate change in the Early Holocene Date: January 27, 2022 Source: University of Oxford Summary: New insight into how our early ancestors dealt with major shifts in climate has been revealed.

The Early Holocene starts 11,700 years ago, as the last Ice Age ended. Stratigraphers will call it the Greenlandian Age, because its “golden spike” is taken from an ice core drilled from ...

New geological data reveals that global sea levels rose rapidly after the last ice age, with peaks exceeding 1 meter per century during the early Holocene. This was due to melting ice caps in ...

Dated to between 10,000 and 1,300 years ago, these long-dead bushmen provide a “time transect” of the genetic changes that occurred in the area from the early Holocene to the end of the Stone Age.

Additional Early Holocene stone alignments at Sconser suggest further human activity, challenging previous assumptions about the range and adaptability of early settlers in western Scotland.

The new findings are “valuable because the early Holocene period serves as a valuable analogue for future sea-level rise due to the similar rates of change as those expected in the next 50-100 ...

Amelioration of habitat since the early Holocene contributed to the origin of agriculture in the farming-pastoral zone of northern China. Science China Earth Sciences , 67(8): 2535-2546, https ...

image: Site of the early Holocene cemetery of Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov, at Lake Onega, some 500 miles north of Moscow view more . Credit: Pavel Tarasov. University of Oxford news release ...