glacial epoch
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The Salmon is a tributary of the mighty Columbia River, which would have been the first large waterway encountered by people who made it south of the ice sheets during the last glacial epoch.
From Nature • Sep. 7, 2015
The Pleistocene glacial epoch began at about 2.6 Ma, which is equivalent to half the thickness of the thin grey line at the top of the yellow bar marked “Cenozoic.”
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
Professor Blanc's discovery near Rome not only predates Homer but may even date back to Java man, who roamed the Southeast Asiatic area in the early part of the glacial epoch.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a glacial epoch: the last continental ice sheet, retreating from northern Germany and Britain, still covered Scandinavia.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sometime during the last glacial epoch, when hunter-gatherers were still living in caves, the Neanderthal tool-making mentality gave way to the Cro-Magnon urge to make images.
From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
