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• n  from two million to 11 thousand years ago; extensive glaciation of the northern hemisphere; the time of human evolution

• If Oldoway is genuinely pleistocene, anthropologists are not much surprised at the persistence of similar people in northeast Africa today.
• During the pleistocene era of Ozzie and Harriet or Donna Reed, the women, in skirts curiously bouffant for housework, had to make their witticisms in or near the kitchen, lest .

• Pleistocene
• Pleistocene epoch
• Glacial epoch

News & Articles

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• Rewriting The Climate History Of The Arctic Ocean
  April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Traces of large ice sheets from the Pleistocene on a seamount off the north-eastern coast of Russia have been discovered by a team of geologists and geophysicists from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research. For the first time, these traces confirm that within the last 800,000 years in the course of ...
  Oct. 1, 2013 - redOrbit
• Traces of immense prehistoric ice sheets discovered
  Geologists and geophysicists have discovered traces of large ice sheets from the Pleistocene on a seamount off the north-eastern coast of Russia.
  Sept. 30, 2013 - Science Daily
• Traces of immense prehistoric ice sheets
  ( Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research ) Geologists and geophysicists of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, discovered traces of large ice sheets from the Pleistocene on a seamount off the north-eastern coast of Russia.
  Sept. 30, 2013 - EurekAlert!

Quotes

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• Denis Dutton in San Jose Mercury News
  There were at least three different forms of humans in the area between 30,000 and 40,000 years ago, and there were also the hobbits in Indonesia, so the picture of what was around in human form in the late Pleistocene gets a lot more complex and a... Svante Pääbo http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svante_P%C3%A4%C3%A4bo&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG7cufCaC_RdWcYsc87WdlSJULwmg The Guardian http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/mar/24/new-human-species-siberia&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHu9pRq4zkrLQGxTxBo1mHSPJm4og Mar 24, 2010 75244 101527 pleistocene What everybody wanted was the Pleistocene savanna landscape," Dutton explained at AEI.
• Chris Stringer in BBC News
  Britain has suffered some of the most extreme climate changes of any area in the world during the Pleistocene,said Professor Stringer. "So places in say South Wales would have gone from something that looked like North Africa with hippos,...