20,000 to 9700 BCE · Africanspan

Ten thousand years of climate swings force everyone to start over

Ehret makes the whole span from the ice maximum to the Holocene one long crisis of adaptation.

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20,000 to 9700 BCE · Africanspan

The ice age ended in fits, with four reversals along the way

Oldest Dryas, Bolling, Allerod, Older Dryas, Younger Dryas: the last ice millennia in order.

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20,000 to 7000 BCE · Africanspan

Every continent humans reached lost its big animals, except the one we came from

Thirty-five genera gone in North America, fifty-two in South America, and Africa's elephants still standing.

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