Sentences with phrase «last glacial period began»

Last glacial period began about 120,000 years ago and end about 15,000 years ago.

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They compared the carbon - 13 and nitrogen - 15 values in the giant deer bones from the Swabian Alb caves with those of red deer, other giant deer and reindeer, which were living at the beginning and the end of the last glacial period.

The beginning of the last glacial period was characterized in the Northern hemisphere by significant accumulation of snow at high latitudes and the formation of a huge polar ice sheet.

The history of Scotland is known to have begun by the end of the last glacial period (in the paleolithic), roughly 10,000 years ago.