It's #WorldHeritageDay! In 2017 caves from the #IceAge on the Swabian Jura became UNESCO World Heritage Site. Humanity's earliest portable art was found in those caves. The tiny (3.7 cm) but amazing figure of a woolly mammoth carved in mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago was discovered at the Vogelherd cave.
'Hiking through swamps, cutting across thick bush, and canoeing across open waters, archaeologists have identified a corridor through Vancouver Island where Indigenous peoples may have sojourned 18,500 years ago.'
Timeline of Earth's average temperatures since the last Ice Age glaciation, 22,000 years ago. More of a comic than a graphic. It appears that our natural world and biosphere will become increasingly unstable without drastic reductions in carbon emissions. #iceage#ClimateDiary#comic#globalwarming https://xkcd.com/1732
Exhibit A: New study shedding some bright light on #Gravettian cultural #diversity - the distinct ornaments and jewellery of #IceAge Europe, 30,000 years ago.
J. Baker et al., Evidence from personal ornaments suggest nine distinct cultural groups between 34,000 and 24,000 years ago in Europe, Nature Human Behaviour 2024. 🔐💵
I'm in awe: holding a 40,000-year-old #IceAge masterpiece in your hand is something you don't get to do every day!
The amazing figurine of a woolly mammoth is carved in mammoth ivory. It will be on display at Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg from Saturday.
Found in the Vogelherd cave on the Swabian Jura, south-west Germany.
An #IceAge masterpiece: the oldest known representation of a bird.
The small carving (4.7cm) of a water bird was made from mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago. It's thought to be a diver, cormorant, or duck.Found in the Hohle Fels cave on the Swabian Jura.
On display at our branch museum Urgeschichtliches Museum Blaubeuren.
Pigati et al have redated a deposit from New Mexico that contains human footprints. The original ages, derived from freshwater plant seeds, suggested the humans were there during the Last Glacial Maximum, over 20,000 years ago. This proved controversial, so they redated the deposit by radiocarbon dating pollen, and optically stimulated luminescence. These techniques are far more challenging, but confirm the original age determination. #Radiocarbon#IceAge#HumanMigrationhttps://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.adh5007
The implication of this is that humans arrived in the Americas prior to the Last Glacial Maximum, since ice sheets blocked the route from Beringia. The ice sheets likely blocked the potential pathways along the Pacific coast and through Alberta by 27,000 years ago. There must not have been that many people, since widespread artifacts are not found until after 13,000 years ago.
For #WorldAnimalDay the oldest known sculpture of a horse: the tiny (4.8 cm) but absolutely gorgeous #IceAge masterpiece was found in the Vogelherd cave on the Swabian Jura - carved in a mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago!
NASA Climate Change: Towards a New Generation of Glacial Isostatic Adjustment Models: Climate Seminar
"Broadly speaking, glacial isostatic adjustment is the study of how the solid Earth and gravity field respond to changes in regional- to global-scale ice mass redistribution...." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmVYlMe-k_g#Glaciers#IceAge#SeaLevel#Cryosphere
Quiz-Zeit! ❓❓❓
Wie gut kennt ihr eigentlich die #Eiszeit? 🧊🕒
Passend zur Sonderausstellung „Urformen. Eiszeitkunst zum Anfassen“ könnt ihr jetzt Euer Wissen über die ältesten Kunstwerke auf der Schwäbischen Alb testen! https://blog.landesmuseum-stuttgart.de/eiszeitkunst-quiz/
