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changes that occurred during the last ice age
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Around 20,000 years ago, the region was covered by massive sheets of ice during the last ice age.
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Rachelle Graham, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026
The research, led by CSUN’s Helene Rougier, found that late Neanderthals descended from a single genetic lineage following a sharp population decline linked to a major ice age.
—City News Service, Daily News, 14 Apr. 2026
Now, a new study has found evidence that Native Americans were likely using dice for gaming and gambling more than 6,000 years earlier, since the end of the last ice age.
—Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2026
That number places human presence in the Yucatán thousands of years before the caves flooded at the end of the last ice age.
—Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Apr. 2026
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Rachelle Graham, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026
The research, led by CSUN’s Helene Rougier, found that late Neanderthals descended from a single genetic lineage following a sharp population decline linked to a major ice age.
—City News Service, Daily News, 14 Apr. 2026
Now, a new study has found evidence that Native Americans were likely using dice for gaming and gambling more than 6,000 years earlier, since the end of the last ice age.
—Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2026
That number places human presence in the Yucatán thousands of years before the caves flooded at the end of the last ice age.
—Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Apr. 2026
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“Ice age.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20age. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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