Practice question · Select all that apply
What changed when the last glaciation ended around 11,700 years ago?
Hints
- Warming released the water locked in the ice.
- Forests replaced open ground, and the herd animals went with it.
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- A. Forests advanced over open steppe-tundra
- C. Herd animals gave way to solitary forest game like red deer and boar
- D. Sea levels rose over a hundred metres, drowning Doggerland and other coastal plains
Why
The Holocene warmed, the ice released its water, and a populated plain where the North Sea now lies simply went under. The Paleolithic way of life, tracking herds across open country, lost its landscape.
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