People in Ethiopia did not live in low valleys during the last ice age. Instead they lived high up in the inhospitable Bale Mountains where they had enough water, built tools out of obsidian and ...

Archaeologists and First Nations communities uncover 693 Ice Age-era stone artifacts in a high-altitude Blue Mountains cave, ...

Buried deep beneath East Antarctica’s ice sheet, the Gamburtsev Mountains are the world’s most invisible range. New research suggests that overlying ice like that hiding them from view today ...

A hiker spotted the Iron Age sandal sticking out of the snow in August of 2019. He promptly contacted Secrets of the Ice, a group of archaeologists who study glaciers and ice patches in Norway ...

Ancient hunting, travel, and trade routes crossed the mountains between the Norwegian coast and inland areas from the Stone Age. "We are lucky that some of these trade routes have gone over ice ...

Researchers have found that glacial erosion and melting ice caps both played a key role in driving the observed global increase in volcanic activity at the end of the last ice age.