New evidence suggests an ice age in western Europe interrupted hominid occupation of the continent for 200,000 years
New evidence suggests an ice age in western Europe interrupted hominid occupation of the continent for 200,000 years
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An Extreme Ice Age May Have Wiped Out Europe's Earliest Humans 1.1 Million Years Ago
New research suggests the continent was devoid of hominins for about 200,000 years after a previously unknown cold snap
The evidence comes from a deep-sea sediment core taken off the coast of Portugal. This newly discovered cold snap happened about 1.15 million years ago, causing early humans to leave or die off. It perhaps extended throughout the Mediterranean to as far as southwestern Asia.