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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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Archaeologists discover 20,000-year-old stone tools in South African caves, revealing Ice Age techn • Apr. 22, 2025, 4:42 AM ET (Jerusalem Post)
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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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A frozen pond in the Khumbu Glacier with Pumori mountain in the left background, near Mount Everest in Sagarmatha National Park in the Himalayas, Nepal.
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