Between 26,500 and 19,000 years ago, massive sheets of ice covered Earth’s Northern hemisphere. During this so-called last glacial maximum, the ice sequestered water, causing a drop in sea level and ...

Researchers have discovered fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited North America during the Last Glacial Maximum, in what is now New Mexico. Credit: National ...

Archaeologists unveil reconstructed face of Peru's most famous mummy 'The Ice Maiden' A demographic expansion following the Last Glacial Maximum about 20,000 years ago may have intensified ...