Tag Archives: ice age

Habitat, genetics and us

Posted on June 19, 2018 by borderslynn

As the last Ice Age melts at a fast pace, the upside of that news is that researchers are finding more and more ancient bones, skeletons and artefacts which were previously locked under permafrost. The knowledge accumulating about the kind … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged adaptation, archaic humans, caves, environment, fire uses, food diversity, ice age, mammoth, Siberia, skill development, survival | Leave a comment

Movement of People of the African Sahara

Posted on August 13, 2017 by borderslynn

I have been particularly interested in finding out why people migrated out of Africa, but there is also the story of those who remained. The adaptable indigenous human, always so ingenious in the most hostile environments. Yet becoming part of … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Africa, aquifer, arabian, desert, ice age, megalithic, migration, nomads, paleolithic, rainfall, rivers, sahara, survival, water, weather patterns | Leave a comment

The connectivity of oceans and human survival

Posted on August 8, 2017 by borderslynn

Business jargon uses SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) to determine decision making. I would suggest this is probably how all humans have approached challenges of survival, but business jargon has encapsulated the process. As the oceans warmed and the … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged boats, bronze age, egypt, ice age, ice melt, language, Mesopotamia, mycenean, oceans, phoenecians, rising sea levels, seafaring | 1 Comment

From Africa to Scotland

Posted on July 28, 2017 by borderslynn

Modern technology has afforded more tools for measuring and dating finds of past human activity. Radiocarbon dating can measure up to 40,000 years ago. This has resulted in recalibration of estimated ages of archaeological finds so that items already in … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Africa, archaeology, carbon dating, geology, human migration, ice age, mesolithic, neolithic, Orkney, scotland, UNESCO | Leave a comment

Ice and its significance

Posted on February 15, 2013 by borderslynn

In 1816, headlines in newspapers read: “The Year Without a Summer” (also known as the Poverty Year, “The Summer that Never Was”, “Year There Was No Summer” and “Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death”. Climate abnormalities caused average global temperatures … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged archaeology, asteroids, climate change, colcanic ash, earth, earth history, ice age, ice cap, unprecedented events, volcanic eruptions | 1 Comment