Synonyms for ice age
ice age

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1. ice age, glacial period, glacial epochnoun

   any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface

   "the most recent ice age was during the Pleistocene"

   Synonyms:
   glacial period, glacial epoch

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1. Doug Biesecker:

   It's a very complicated issue, does the sun have a role in our variable climate? Yes. Is the dominant role? No. Even the concept of the sun being responsible for Europe's mini ice age -- it's not hard-and-fast true.

2. Love Dalén:

   I think one of the simplest explanations is that hunter-gatherers may have caught wolf pups, which is extremely easy to do, and kept them in captivity as sentinels against the large predators that roamed the landscapes of the last Ice Age - bears, cave lions, etc. as well as other dangerous mammals - mammoths, woolly rhinos, other humans.

3. Mike Everhart:

   The bear skull was washed out of the same river sediments that routinely produce the skulls and bones of the American bison, some of which could date back as far as the last Ice Age, whether it is hundreds or thousands of years old, the skull gives us a better insight into the richness of life on the plains before Western man.

4. Alexander Pryor:

   We found pieces of soft plant tissue typically found in edible roots or tubers, hinting at a plant food component in peoples' diet, these finds are important because they illustrate how our human ancestors adapted to survive the harsh environments of the last Ice Age by making use of the resources they found around them.

5. Oliver Jagoutz:

   Every time you had an ice age, you had an increased suture zone length in the tropics.