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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 ...
Extinction?
They moved....................
“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...”
Southwest Asia? So do they mean India?
It would seem much easier to migrate right across the strait from North Africa to Iberia than from Southwest Asia... I wonder what evidence they have to support that conclusion?
no, southwest Asia is like Turkey/Syria area
This must be that freezing-to-death I’ve heard about...
How blessed are we then?
Calling what lived 1 million years ago “human” is stretching the truth a bit. Hominids, yes. But when people read “human” they think human beings — homo sapiens.
Ah, I see.
Back in more sensible times they would have called that “Asia Minor” to avoid this kind of confusion. “Southwest Asia” being further west than “the Middle East” and a thousand miles or more from “Southeast Asia” doesn’t really make any sense at all.
The early humans were Homo Erectus who had not yet discovered clothing.
Hmmm - winter time in Europe, no clothing, probably no fire control for heating and cooking = 100% fatality rate?
OK - onto the next page in human history.
The gang in Spain went mainly down the drain.
I often tell liberals that it was not so long ago that New York and Chicago were under a mile of ice. We are in a short warming period. The ice and cold will return, and all we can do is adapt. There is evidence that the cold will last 100,000 years, or more.
When I was in the office, I would repeat this information off and on. Some would eventually ask questions. I kept politics out of the conversation, and just stated the facts. Some liberals are curious, most liberals are not.
Southwest Asia is another name for the Middle East.
I was so sorry when Robert passed, suddenly, a year or so ago. Don’t think it was vax related at all. I miss his and the regulars’ contributions to his blog ‘iceageinfo’
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