The Ice Age  

@Jamie_Woodward_

Prof : 🌎 history, , , human past, rivers, Nile, . Author of The Ice Age VSI. Trustee Fellow

Manchester, UK
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    Giant sloths in South America excavated ENORMOUS tunnels during the Pleistocene. These remarkable megaburrows preserve the claw marks from the beasts that engineered them. More details and image credits here

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  2. Décès de Simon Coencas, dernier survivant des "découvreurs" de Lascaux. En 1940, à l'âge de 13 ans, accompagné de trois copains, il avait découvert la grotte aux peintures, depuis classées au Patrimoine mondial de l'Unesco

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    The last of the three lads who discovered the paintings at Lascaux has just died.

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  4. We are delighted to welcome Prof Danielle Schreve who will present a lecture on: “Our Beastly Past: vertebrate responses to abrupt climate change during the last 60 ka in Britain." 6.00 pm in University Place, Lecture Theatre A. No 37 on this map

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  5. Global biodiversity loss: “even quite a few ecologists seem to lack an appreciation of the sheer magnitude of damage we’ve done to the planet.”

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  6. The 2020 William Boyd Dawkins Lecture takes place this week on Thurs 6th Feb at 6.00 pm. It is hosted by and “Our Beastly Past” by Prof Danielle Schreve All welcome - please sign up for a free ticket

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    Some Owls have seen things... Image: Owl panel from the mosaic of the House of Birds, a Hadrianic Villa in Italica, Spain

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  8. This is the oldest known image of an owl. It was drawn with muddy Palaeolithic fingers over 30,000 years ago in Chauvet Cave, France. It is therefore a 🦉 Image by Jean Clottes

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  9. Magdalenian toe prints from the floor of Niaux Cave 📷 Agenda de la Préhistoire 2002/03

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  10. Drawing of the Niaux fish from H. Breuil and E. Cartailhac 1907.

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  11. Some of my favourite has a childlike simplicity — yet is wonderfully accomplished. This fabulous charcoal horse from Tito Bustillo Cave in Asturias, Spain, was drawn in the Magdalenian ~17,000-12,000 years ago. Image: World Heritage Photos

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  12. Niaux Cave, in the foothills of the French Pyrenees, has more than 2 km of galleries decorated in art from the Magdalenian. At the end of the last ice age a fish was sketched In the clay floor near the entrance to the famous 'Salon Noir' Image: Wendel Collection

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  13. Andes meltdown: new insights into rapidly retreating glaciers in South America

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  15. The delta is about 400 km across. It is a harsh, frozen tundra landscape for about seven months of the year. In summer the delta is transformed into a rich diverse wetland.

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  16. Were Neanderthals more than cousins to Homo Sapiens?

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  17. The anatomy of a giant Arctic delta. Zoom in to explore the complexity and beauty in the channel patterns! This is the River Lena delta in NE Siberia where the mighty Lena meets the Arctic Ocean. The Adams Mammoth was found here in 1799. Image: NASA

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  18. Neanderthal genes hint at much earlier human migration from Africa

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  19. All of this means that we are now without a doubt well within a sixth mass extinction event. END

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  20. Even cultivated plants are becoming threatened, with about 200 cultivated species threatened with extinction, and a global homogenisation of food crop species used to feed the world over the last 50 years.

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  21. Even our domesticated species are in decline — some 10% of domesticated breeds of mammals have become extinct in human history, with more than 1000 others threatened with extinction.

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