Mini Project - Pleistocene Epoch

By: Dawson Rose

Pleistocene Epoch

Climate

(2,580,000 - 11,700 years ago)

This epoch is known for having the famous "Ice Age". There were also many interglacial periods where the ice melted and temperatures increased. During these warm dry periods, forests and grasslands developed.

Interesting Fact

Organisms

Homo sapiens started colonizing grasslands and using stone tools. Human hunting could be why many large land mammals went extinct.

Major Events

During this time, mammoths and saber-tooth tigers were present. Hominis, such as homo erectus and homo sapiens, started emerging in the warm grasslands.

- Ice Ages - Human Evolution

Interesting Fact

Interesting Fact

Interesting Fact

During the ice ages, sea levels dropped, and a land bridge connected modern day Russia and Alaska.

Woolly mammoths, giant sloths, huge dire wolves, saber-tooth tigers, dodo birds, bears, and horses were present during this epoch.

The earliest forms of human art, such as cave paintings, date back to this epoch.

Reference 2: Mazur, Allan. Ice Ages : Their Social and Natural History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Print.

Reference 1: Straus, Lawrence Guy. Humans at the End of the Ice Age : the Archaeology of the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition. Ed. Lawrence Guy Straus. 1st ed. 1996. New York, New York: Plenum Press, 1996. Web.