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Ice Age Britons Returned 500 Years Earlier Than Thought

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Ice Age Britons Returned 500 Years Earlier Than Thought

Llangorse Lake in South Wales,

A new reconstruction of Ice Age Britain suggests people were back in the British Isles around 15,200 years ago, roughly 500 years earlier than the old climate timeline allowed. The finding, reported by ScienceDaily from an original article by Adrian Palmer in The Conversation, points to a sharp burst of southern British summer warmth that may have opened the door for hunter-gatherers and the animals they pursued. Rather than waiting for the famous warming seen in Greenland ice cores, these people seem to have moved into a locally improving landscape first.

The research matters because Britain was still joined to the continent. Reindeer and horses were moving into expanding grazing grounds, and people could follow them across a landmass not yet cut off by the sea. It adds a new twist to Britain’s late Ice Age populations, showing how small regional climate shifts could have large human consequences.

A Welsh Lake Rewrites the Timeline

The key evidence comes from Llangorse Lake, or Lake Syffadan, in South Wales, where sediments preserve a 19,000-year environmental record. In the primary study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, I. P. Matthews and colleagues combined recalibrated archaeological radiocarbon dates with fossil pollen, lake chemistry, and temperature-sensitive chironomids. Their results indicate that southern British summers jumped from about 5–7°C to 10–14°C around 15,200 years ago.

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Source: https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/ice-age-britain-00102793



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