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**Bibliolater** @bibliolater@qoto.org · 19h

**Ancient rocks boost case for mini ice age linked to fall of Rome**

“_Unusual rocks on an Icelandic beach were dropped there by icebergs, adding to evidence that an unusually cool period preceded the collapse of the Roman Empire_”

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2475664-ancient-rocks-boost-case-for-mini-ice-age-linked-to-fall-of-rome/.

#History #Histodon #Histodons #Climate #IceAge #Romans #RomanEmpire @histodon @histodons

New Scientist · 23hAncient rocks boost case for mini ice age linked to fall of RomeBy Michael Le Page

**Europe Says** @europesays@pubeurope.com · 1d

Europe Says @europesays@pubeurope.com

https://www.europesays.com/1977410/ How scientists resurrected ice-age wolf that had been dead for 10,000 years #america #BloodCloning #ColossalBioscience #conservation #CrisprEditing #DireWolf #DireWolfDeExtinction #extinction #GenomeEditing #IceAge #science #ScienceNews #technology #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USA #WhatisDireWolf

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**michael** @proseandpassion@mastodon.social · 5d

michael @proseandpassion@mastodon.social

3-Apr-2025
Climate change and prehistoric human populations: Eastward shift of settlement areas at the end of the last #iceAge

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1079335 #science #humans #anthropology #archaeology #migration #Europe #Palaeolithic

EurekAlert!Climate change and prehistoric human populations: Eastward shift of settlement areas at the end of the last ice ageAn archaeological study of human settlement during the Final Palaeolithic revealed that populations in Europe did not decrease homogenously during the last cold phase of the Ice Age. Significant variation in regional population sizes indicate differentiated reactions nested in an overall shift of settlement areas towards the east / publication in PLOS One

**Universität zu Köln** @UniKoeln@wisskomm.social · 5d

Universität zu Köln @UniKoeln@wisskomm.social

An archaeological study of human settlement during the Final Palaeolithic revealed that populations in Europe did not decrease homogenously during the last cold phase of the Ice Age. Significant variation in regional population sizes indicate differentiated reactions nested in an overall shift of settlement areas towards the east

Read more
https://uni.koeln/TXS74

Study: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0310942

The map shows population shifts from the south-western to the north-eastern Europe during the last cold phase of the Ice Age. Photo: Isabell Schmidt, University of Cologne

#UniCologne #population #iceage

**Archaeology News** @archaeology@mstdn.social · Mar 29

Mar 29

Archaeology News @archaeology@mstdn.social

25,000-year-old mammoth bone site discovered in Lower Austria

An archaeological team from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) has made a groundbreaking discovery in Langmannersdorf an der Perschling, Lower Austria, where remains of at least five mammoths, stone tools, and evidence of ivory processing were found...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/03/mammoth-bone-site-discovered-in-lower-austria/

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25,000-year-old mammoth bone site discovered in Lower Austria

An archaeological team from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) has made a groundbreaking discovery in Langmannersdorf an der Perschling, Lower Austria, where remains of at least five mammoths, stone tools, and evidence of ivory processing were found. The site dates back 25,000 years and provides us with important new evidence about the hunting strategies and lifestyles of Ice Age humans.

#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews

**Bob Tregilus** @elaterite@fosstodon.org · Mar 29 *

Mar 29 *

Bob Tregilus @elaterite@fosstodon.org

The Nevada State Fish is Oncorhynchus henshawi henshawi (Lahontan cutthroat trout). It was once an important food source for the Paiute and Washoe tribes of Nevada and California. The fish evolved in the large endorheic Pleistocene Lake Lahonton that covered a portion of northeastern California and most of northwestern Nevada.

#Fish #IceAge #StreetArt

**Niepopularna opinia Bóbr Kurwa** @niepopularna@mastodon.top · Mar 27

Mar 27

Niepopularna opinia Bóbr Kurwa @niepopularna@mastodon.top

#ai #aiArt #aiArtWork

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**Eugene Parnell** @eugeneparnell@mstdn.social · Mar 25

Mar 25

Eugene Parnell @eugeneparnell@mstdn.social

Hiking Ancient Lakes part 8. This giant boulder seems eerily prescient, like something out of a fantasy novel. Perhaps someone (or some thing) threw it off the cliff at the last people who passed this way.
Anyway, for more about how this landscape formed, see here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_floods
8/8
#PNW #Washington #hiking #geology #iceage #getoutside #outdoors

Wide view of a path through a wide valley. Cliffs in the distance. In the foreground are tall
Gray-green sage brush plants. In the middle distance is a huge rock outcropping, jagged and mean looking, almost shaped like a cylinder perched on a 35 degree angle.

Another view of the strange rock, which is about 5 meters across, and the cliff beyond, which is a few hundred meters away and about fifty meters high.

A closer view of the jagged boulder which looks slightly metallic, like a meteorite or something, perched at an improbable angle on the ground. It looks as if it could fall over any time.

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**Eugene Parnell** @eugeneparnell@mstdn.social · Mar 25

Mar 25

Eugene Parnell @eugeneparnell@mstdn.social

Hiking Ancient Lakes part 7. You can't go wrong with waterfalls and columnar basalt. Orange lichen on rabbit brush. Also does anyone recognize these giant reeds? Is this invasive pampas grass or something native? I don't know many of the plants here at all. 7/8
#PNW #Washington #hiking #geology #iceage #getoutside #outdoors

A small waterfall seen from the side. It's plunging over a small cliff made from the hexagonal columns of stone seen in previous posts.

A closer view of the water plunging over the cliff and the curious hexagonal rock formations on either side of it.

A closeup of a rabbit (sage) brush bush showing the woody internal parts of the plant, which are twisted and gnarled. It is covered in orangish green lichen, like a coarse orange powder all over the wood.

Some very tall reed grass growing in a wet spot in the valley beneath a cliff. The reeds have large dramatic feathery seed heads and are higher than a person.

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**Eugene Parnell** @eugeneparnell@mstdn.social · Mar 25

Mar 25

Eugene Parnell @eugeneparnell@mstdn.social

Hiking Ancient Lakes part 6. Small video: turn the sound up. It's frog breeding season in the still water of the coulee lakes, and they're going crazy. Some spring birds there too. 6/8
#PNW #Washington #hiking #geology #iceage #getoutside #outdoors

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**Eugene Parnell** @eugeneparnell@mstdn.social · Mar 25

Mar 25

Eugene Parnell @eugeneparnell@mstdn.social

Hiking Ancient Lakes part 5. Here's some closeups of the main rock attraction here: columnar basalt, a result of ancient lava flows (way more ancient than the lakes). I keep wondering where all this lava came from-- the nearest existant volcano is probably Mt Rainier, over 130km away. 5/8
#PNW #Washington #hiking #geology #iceage #getoutside #outdoors

A rock formation, part of a cliff. The rocks seem to be divided into vertical hexagonal pillars all packed closely together a bit like organ pipes. These are quite weathered and have lots of horizontal chips or cracks in them.

Another columnar basalt cliff. The lower part is a debris pile, the middle part is a
Series of hexagonal pillars all packed together, and then more chaotic, weathered rock layers above that.

Another dramatic cliff similar to the others but even more extensive. The commons march along for 800 meters or more from left to right. Tall yellow grass in the foreground, and shredded up rain clouds overhead show blue between them.

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**Eugene Parnell** @eugeneparnell@mstdn.social · Mar 25

Mar 25

Eugene Parnell @eugeneparnell@mstdn.social

Hiking Ancient Lakes part 4. This is a state park. Strangely, the trails aren't very well marked and in order to see all the good parts you have to drive round the outside to a couple different trailheads. But on a weekday in March, it's blissfully quiet and empty. I saw only maybe 6 people all day. 4/8 #PNW #Washington #hiking #geology #iceage #getoutside #outdoors

Wide view of a valley with a cliff on the left. The vegetation is gray-green sage brush and some reddish willow twigs without any leaves in the middle distance. The cliffs are reddish with lighter color splotches. The sun from
Behind lights the cliffs dramatically. Moody dark skies overhead.

Another view of a path through a broad valley with cliffs in deep shadow on either side. The sort of the path is lit by the late afternoon sun behind you and is a bright orangish gold color. The tall yellow grass and sagebrush are lit dramatically as well. Overhead the storm clouds recede away from the viewer.

Another view of a broad valley, this time looking the other way toward the west. A massive cloud formation like a sidewalk recedes into the distance, flanked by blue sky on either side. The sun lights up the distant cliffs.

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**Eugene Parnell** @eugeneparnell@mstdn.social · Mar 25

Mar 25

Eugene Parnell @eugeneparnell@mstdn.social

Hiking Ancient Lakes part 3. This place is called "Ancient Lakes" and it's right by "The Gorge" amphitheater (WA people will know this place for its outdoor concerts). Ironically this system of coulees (canyon like flood channels) was formed by post-Ice Age glacial runoff, which in geological time isn't ancient at all-- it's like the day before yesterday. 3/8 #PNW #Washington #hiking #geology #iceage #getoutside #outdoors

View along the shore of one of the lakes mentioned in the post. The right hand side is a 45 degree angle debris pile, loose basaltic boulders and flakes, reddish in color. The lake is on the left. Around the edge of the water the rocks are covered in a white crusty mineral buildup which contracts intensely with the other rocks. The moody blue and coudy sky is reflected in the water.

Wide view of another lake with a spectacular cloud formation like a long tube running overhead into the distance. The lake has tiny ducks visible in the distance. The foreground is dried grass, basalt boulders, and gray-green rabbit (sage) brush.

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**Eugene Parnell** @eugeneparnell@mstdn.social · Mar 25

Mar 25

Eugene Parnell @eugeneparnell@mstdn.social

Hiking Ancient Lakes part 2. The Columbia Gorge (which has the Columbia River running through it) is kind of unimaginably huge. The snow capped ridges in the distance are like 50km away and the river itself is beyond the nearer cliffs and lakes, but before the snowy ridges, hidden in a literal gorge some 500(?) meters below any of the ground you see here. 2/8
#PNW #Washington #hiking #geology #iceage #getoutside #outdoors

Wide view of a valley with the same brushy open vegetation, a small, still lake in it, and two cliffs beyond it. There is a gap between the cliffs through which one can see very distant snow covered ridges. Moody clouds swirl overhead.

Another view of the same valley with the lake more visible. The cliff on the right has an impressive pike of rubble at its foot forming a kind of ramp partway up it.

**Eugene Parnell** @eugeneparnell@mstdn.social · Mar 25

Mar 25

Eugene Parnell @eugeneparnell@mstdn.social

First hiking thread of 2025. This is the time of year that those of us in the Puget Sound region get tired of the rain, and after a very waterlogged weekend, I struck out East, across the Cascades, to the Columbia Gorge. 1/8
#PNW #Washington #hiking #geology #iceage #getoutside #outdoors

Wide view of a dry landscape with steep cliffs and valleys. The valley floors are all covered in yellow grass and greenish sage brush plants. The cliffs have vertical clefts and piles of scree at the bottom. A lake is visible in the valley is n the distance. The sky overhead is moody.

**Jens Notroff** @jens2go@mastodon.social · Mar 19 *

Mar 19 *

Jens Notroff @jens2go@mastodon.social

Now, that's a #mammoth discovery! Literally.

#IceAge hunters' large mammal processing site in Lower #Austria, got it all: dismembered bones, tusk fragments - and the stone tool kits which did it.

https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeai/media/news-archive/news-detail/langmannersdorf-en

www.oeaw.ac.atNew mammoth bone finds in Lower Austria provide insights into the everyday life of Ice Age huntersA team of OeAI archaeologists discovered the remains of at least five mammoths during excavations north-east of St. Pölten. Stone tools, dismembered bones and tusk fragments indicate the utilisation of the meat and the processing of ivory by mammoth hunters 25,000 years ago.