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A polar map shows five great ice caps, or centres, from which the ice moved outward during the Ice Age and to which it later retreated. North American ice sheets European ice sheets
Examine glacial scratches on rocks from Switzerland to New York City for evidence of Earth's icy past
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Ice Age American families pulled travois 22,000 years ago, White Sands discovery shows • Feb. 27, 2025, 4:43 AM ET (Jerusalem Post)
An Ice Age refuge: DNA of humans, wolves, mammoths retrieved from sediments in El Mirón cave • Feb. 22, 2025, 4:00 AM ET (Jerusalem Post)
Divers discover 500,000-year-old treasure trove of fossils in Florida sinkhole • Feb. 18, 2025, 1:57 AM ET (Live Science)

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Also Known As glacial epoch

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A polar map shows five great ice caps, or centres, from which the ice moved outward during the Ice Age and to which it later retreated.
North American ice sheets
European ice sheets
Examine glacial scratches on rocks from Switzerland to New York City for evidence of Earth's icy past
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Loren Eiseley
American anthropologist
Zittel, Karl Alfred, Ritter von
Karl Alfred, knight von Zittel
German paleontologist
Eduard Brückner
Austrian geographer and climatologist

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