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Early humans wiped out in Europe by ‘glacial cooling’, study suggests

New research challenges idea that people have continuously lived in region since first arriving
An academic paper claims a previously unknown glacial period that occurred about 1.1mn years ago led to abrupt cooling that lasted about 4,000 years

Extreme “glacial cooling” that occurred more than a million years ago in southern Europe is likely to have caused an “extinction of early humans” on the continent, according to new research.

The previously unknown ice age pushed the European climate to “beyond what archaic humans could tolerate” and likely wiped out human life on the continent temporarily, concluded an academic paper published in the journal Science.

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