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Ice Age Secrets

We're living in an ice age right now. Ice sheets cover the poles, and glaciers rule high mountains. Our world flips between freezing glacials and milder interglacials—and guess what? Today's warmth is just a temporary thaw.

Key Facts

Earth has endured at least five major ice ages so far.

The current one is the Quaternary period (2.6 million years ago to now), split into Pleistocene (ice-heavy, ending ~12,000 years ago) and Holocene (our interglacial era).

Temperatures can swing 15°C in decades, reshaping plants, animals, and even human evolution.

Surprise: Mammoths and saber-toothed cats roamed with early humans in the wild Pleistocene swings.

Historical Context

The Quaternary ice age kicked off 2.6 million years ago with massive ice pulses. Glaciers advanced and retreated, forcing life to adapt fast. Early humans hunted amid these chaos, dodging megafauna in a frozen, unpredictable world.

Historical Significance

These ice swings sculpted continents, drove species like mammoths to extinction, and molded human evolution. Hunter-gatherers thrived by innovating tools and migrating. Today, it warns us: our "warm" interglacial could flip cold again, echoing ancient upheavals.

Learn More: Ice Age

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Netflix Unknown Cave of Bones is a well-produced documentary. Kudos to the producer and daring cavers. Now we can move on to the big discovery -Rising Star Cave Engravings - Part I: The Underworld - Before Orion

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Seen the news about the Homo naledi burials from several hundred thousand years ago?

Check out 'Homo Naledi Burial? A Public Peer Review of the Evidence'

In honor of my dad, Harold Dibble

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Rising Star Cave Engravings – Part II: The Terrestrial Plane Cave of Bones saga followers navigating between widely dissenting beliefs on the who, when and what of the Rising Star Cave in South Africa may find solace in this latest blog post. Here we continue our journey beyond Homo naledi towards rediscovering the animal characters and stylistic relationships between the engravings in the Rising Star Cave with the Iberian Gorham’s Etching and Gallery of Discs which were introduced in the previous blog post Rising Star Cave Engravings – Part I: The Underworld – Before Orion. The art in these two Iberian caves dates to around 35,000 years ago and firmly falls into the culture we now refer to as Aurignacian peoples. Those were us – Homo sapiens – who came out of Africa, had already journeyed into Asia, and are culturally categorized by the artifacts we left behind. Homo naledi is important to the understanding of their fossils in the Rising Star Cave and the work of paleoanthropologists Dr. Lee Berger, Dr. Augustin Fuentes and Dr. John Hawks should be commended in this respect but the small-brained hominid from long-ago is no longer a credible player in the narrative of the Cave of Bones engravings. Rising Star Cave Engravings – Part II: The Terrestrial Plane

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Rising Star Cave Engravings – Part II: The Terrestrial Plane Cave of Bones saga followers navigating between widely dissenting beliefs on the who, when and what of the Rising Star Cave in South Africa may find solace in this latest blog post. Here we continue our journey beyond Homo naledi towards rediscovering the animal characters and stylistic relationships between the engravings in the Rising Star Cave with the Iberian Gorham’s Etching and Gallery of Discs which were introduced in the previous blog post Rising Star Cave Engravings – Part I: The Underworld – Before Orion. The art in these two Iberian caves dates to around 35,000 years ago and firmly falls into the culture we now refer to as Aurignacian peoples. Those were us – Homo sapiens – who came out of Africa, had already journeyed into Asia, and are culturally categorized by the artifacts we left behind. Homo naledi is important to the understanding of their fossils in the Rising Star Cave and the work of paleoanthropologists Dr. Lee Berger, Dr. Augustin Fuentes and Dr. John Hawks should be commended in this respect but the small-brained hominid from long-ago is no longer a credible player in the narrative of the Cave of Bones engravings. Rising Star Cave Engravings – Part II: The Terrestrial Plane

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Rising Star Cave Engravings – Part II: The Terrestrial Plane Cave of Bones saga followers navigating between widely dissenting beliefs on the who, when and what of the Rising Star Cave in South Africa may find solace in this latest blog post. Here we continue our journey beyond Homo naledi towards rediscovering the animal characters and stylistic relationships between the engravings in the Rising Star Cave with the Iberian Gorham’s Etching and Gallery of Discs which were introduced in the previous blog post Rising Star Cave Engravings – Part I: The Underworld – Before Orion. The art in these two Iberian caves dates to around 35,000 years ago and firmly falls into the culture we now refer to as Aurignacian peoples. Those were us – Homo sapiens – who came out of Africa, had already journeyed into Asia, and are culturally categorized by the artifacts we left behind. Homo naledi is important to the understanding of their fossils in the Rising Star Cave and the work of paleoanthropologists Dr. Lee Berger, Dr. Augustin Fuentes and Dr. John Hawks should be commended in this respect but the small-brained hominid from long-ago is no longer a credible player in the narrative of the Cave of Bones engravings. Rising Star Cave Engravings – Part II: The Terrestrial Plane

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Rising Star Cave Engravings – Part II: The Terrestrial Plane Cave of Bones saga followers navigating between widely dissenting beliefs on the who, when and what of the Rising Star Cave in South Africa may find solace in this latest blog post. Here we continue our journey beyond Homo naledi towards rediscovering the animal characters and stylistic relationships between the engravings in the Rising Star Cave with the Iberian Gorham’s Etching and Gallery of Discs which were introduced in the previous blog post Rising Star Cave Engravings – Part I: The Underworld – Before Orion. The art in these two Iberian caves dates to around 35,000 years ago and firmly falls into the culture we now refer to as Aurignacian peoples. Those were us – Homo sapiens – who came out of Africa, had already journeyed into Asia, and are culturally categorized by the artifacts we left behind. Homo naledi is important to the understanding of their fossils in the Rising Star Cave and the work of paleoanthropologists Dr. Lee Berger, Dr. Augustin Fuentes and Dr. John Hawks should be commended in this respect but the small-brained hominid from long-ago is no longer a credible player in the narrative of the Cave of Bones engravings. Rising Star Cave Engravings – Part II: The Terrestrial Plane

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Rising Star Cave Engravings – Part II: The Terrestrial Plane Cave of Bones saga followers navigating between widely dissenting beliefs on the who, when and what of the Rising Star Cave in South Africa may find solace in this latest blog post. Here we continue our journey beyond Homo naledi towards rediscovering the animal characters and stylistic relationships between the engravings in the Rising Star Cave with the Iberian Gorham’s Etching and Gallery of Discs which were introduced in the previous blog post Rising Star Cave Engravings – Part I: The Underworld – Before Orion. The art in these two Iberian caves dates to around 35,000 years ago and firmly falls into the culture we now refer to as Aurignacian peoples. Those were us – Homo sapiens – who came out of Africa, had already journeyed into Asia, and are culturally categorized by the artifacts we left behind. Homo naledi is important to the understanding of their fossils in the Rising Star Cave and the work of paleoanthropologists Dr. Lee Berger, Dr. Augustin Fuentes and Dr. John Hawks should be commended in this respect but the small-brained hominid from long-ago is no longer a credible player in the narrative of the Cave of Bones engravings. Rising Star Cave Engravings – Part II: The Terrestrial Plane