Map Of Europe 20000 Years Ago
But roughly 12 000 years ago as the last major ice age was reaching its end the area was very different.
Map of europe 20000 years ago. Mean temperatures 4 to 8 c lower than those of our century caused massive advances of alpine glaciers and movements of scandinavian inland ice masses toward the south. The unique map shows the world as it would have looked 14 000 years ago when the ice age was at its harshest. As history progresses considerable regional irregularities of cultural development emerge and increase. Prehistoric europe is the designation for the period of human presence in europe before the start of recorded history beginning in the lower paleolithic.
This map represents the present state of our knowledge of the geography of europe and western asia at a period which we guess to be about 50 000 years ago the neanderthaler age. Designers worked with geologists to accurately map the massive landbridges and ice. Much of this map is of course speculative but its broad outlines must be fairly like those of the world in which men first became men. These profound climatic changes resulted in a shift of climate and vegetation zones toward the equator.
Things aren t always what they seem on the surface. Homo sapiens are believed to have emerged out of africa around. Check out this really cool map that we found of what europe looked like 10 000 years ago when britain was still attached to it by land. Click the image to view a fill sized version.
Tundra became predominant in western and central europe while boreal coniferous deciduous and mixed forests covered much of. According to clark et al growth of ice sheets commenced 33 000 years ago and maximum coverage was between 26 500 years and 19 20 000 years ago when deglaciation commenced in. Looking at the area between mainland europe and the eastern coast of great britain you probably wouldn t guess it had been anything other than a great expanse of ocean water. Vast ice sheets covered much of north america northern europe and asia and profoundly affected earth s climate by causing drought desertification and a large drop in sea levels.
The upper paleolithic or upper palaeolithic late stone age is the third and last subdivision of the paleolithic or old stone age very broadly it dates to between 50 000 and 12 000 years ago the beginning of the holocene according to some theories coinciding with the appearance of behavioral modernity in early modern humans until the advent of the neolithic revolution and agriculture. The last glacial maximum lgm was the most recent time during the last glacial period that ice sheets were at their greatest extent. Map of europe and western asia 50 000 years ago. In the time of the third interglacial period the outline of europe and western asia was very different from what it is.