Reindeer fur would have helped ancient humans withstand the largest climate of the last glacier
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Human-occupied outdoor sites in Austria in the coldest parts of the past Ice Age show how people adapted to extreme temperatures in Europe.
Called Kammern-Grubgraben, the site is heavily occupied around 24,000-20,000 years ago, and features the largest richness of European tools, ornaments, artifacts and stone structures of the cold and unforgiving newest glacier. At this point, the average annual temperature…
Source: www.newscientist.com
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