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By around 20,000 BP the climate was so cold, with much of Britain under ice and the rest a polar desert, so that little life could survive, and the glacial fauna also went extinct. The climate began to warm again around 11,700 BP, entering the present climatic period known as the Holocene. Animals repopulated Britain and Ireland.
Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) Britain is the period of the earliest known occupation of Britain by humans. This huge period saw many changes in the environment, encompassing several glacial and interglacial episodes greatly affecting human settlement in the region.
Ice Age Giants is a British television documentary series created and produced by BBC Natural History Unit, first shown in the UK on BBC Two and BBC Two HD on 19 May 2013. . The series steps back to 20,000 years in time and follows the trail of the prehistoric mammals in the ice age on North America and European region that lived through it to life by using the latest scientific knowledge and ...
The Boxgrove Palaeolithic site is an internationally important archaeological site north-east of Boxgrove in West Sussex with findings that date to the Lower Palaeolithic.The oldest human remains in Britain have been discovered on the site, fossils of Homo heidelbergensis dating to 500,000 years ago. [2]
Creswell Crags is an enclosed limestone gorge on the border between Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, England, near the villages of Creswell and Whitwell.The cliffs in the ravine contain several caves that were occupied during the last ice age, between around 43,000 and 10,000 years ago.
List of extinct animals of Romania List of fossil species in the La Brea Tar Pits , California, United States List of fossil species in the London Clay , England
Newgrange passage grave, County Meath, Ireland, c,. 3200 BC, restored in 1975. Newgrange entrance and engraved stones. "The Neolithic period is one of remarkable changes in landscapes, societies and technologies, which changed a wild, forested world, to one of orderly agricultural production and settled communities on the brink of socially complex 'civilization'.
Dinosaur Britain is a two-part British documentary on ITV telling the story of many of the dinosaurs that once roamed Great Britain, revealing how they hunted, ...