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Last ice age
Coverage of Last ice age in the Nexus archive.
- Humans returned to Britain 500 years earlier than scientists thought after the last ice age
Humans returned to Britain around 15,200 years ago, earlier than previously thought, and migrated along with herds of reindeer and horses across a warming landscape. The last ice sheet began retreating, allowing people to move into the British Isles. This new evidence suggests a revised timeline for human presence in the region.
- Native Americans were gambling with dice 6,000 years earlier than anyone else, study says
A study claims Native American hunter-gatherers used dice for gambling over 12,000 years ago on the western Great Plains of North America, predating similar practices elsewhere by 6,000 years. Archaeological evidence suggests these early games of chance occurred at the end of the last ice age.