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changes that occurred during the last ice age
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The White Sands footprints, whose age scholars estimated again, in a paper published this past October, by analyzing tree pollen and quartz grains in the sedimentary layers, provide the most conclusive evidence to date that humans were actually here much earlier, toward the end of the last ice age.
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Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2024
His colleagues kept referring to the Holocene, the geological epoch that began at the close of the last ice age, about twelve thousand years ago.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2024
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Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2024
His colleagues kept referring to the Holocene, the geological epoch that began at the close of the last ice age, about twelve thousand years ago.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2024
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“Ice age.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20age. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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