Nadene Goldfoot
Modern humans, or Homo sapiens, evolved during the Pleistocene and spread across most of Earth before the period ended, according to the University of California Museum of Paleontology. The epoch also featured ice age giants, such as woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) and saber-toothed cats, many of which disappeared at the end of the Pleistocene in a major extinction event.
The last Ice Age made much of the globe uninhabitable, but there were oases - or refugia - where people 20,000 years ago were able to cluster and survive. That was during the Ice Age.
I measure time by Abraham's age, born in 1948 BCE of the 2nd Millennium. Let's see. David, king of Israel time was from 1010 to 970 BCE, 1st Millennium. So 20,000 years ago should take us back to the 21st millennium of about 20, 948 BCE.
The question I have is if there were any humans during the last ice age that migrated to the Middle East in their search for liveable land?
The Pleistocene (Ice Age) ended 11,700 years ago.
Humans arrived in Arabia 10,000 YEARS earlier than thought | Daily Mail Online
Researchers at the University of Huddersfield, who specialise in the analysis of human DNA, have found new evidence that there was one or more of these shelters in what is now Southern Arabia. On 2nd thought, my father, Jewish, tested as QBZ67 on the Big Y test with FTDNA, finding that Jewish Qs were about 5% of the male Jewish people. Approximately 2.5% (4/157: 3 Q*, 1 Q-M346) of males in Saudi Arabia belong to haplogroup Q. It also accounts for 1.8% (3/164: 2 Q*, 1 Q-M346) in the United Arab Emirates and 0.8% (1/121: Q*) in Oman peoples.We have this Q that we share with many native Americans of both North and South America, but broke off from them thousands of years ago when we entered the Middle East. So we also share this haplogroup of males with Muslim Middle Easterners as well.
Once the Ice Age receded - with the onset of the Late Glacial period about 15,000 years ago - the people of this refugium then dispersed and populated Arabia and the Horn of Africa, and might also have migrated further afield.
Overview. Homo sapiens, the first modern humans, evolved from their early hominid predecessors between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago. They developed a capacity for language about 50,000 years ago. The first modern humans began moving outside of Africa starting about 70,000-100,000 years ago. During the ice age, some populations remained in Africa and did not experience the full effects of the cold. Others moved into other parts of the world, including the cold, glacial environments of Europe.
Homo sapiens, the first members of our species, first appeared in Africa some 300,000 years ago, which technically means humans were present in the ice age and somehow survived. They weren't alone either. Other 'hominin' species, which include our distant ancestors and closest relatives, were present in Eurasia during the start of the cold age.
The only people who survived this harshest period in Europe were hunter-gatherers who had found refuge in portions of France and the Iberian peninsula, the study found. The Italian peninsula, previously thought to have been a refuge for people during this period, was just the opposite - all its inhabitants perished.
Growing evidence for a human presence in the Americas prior to 15,000 y ago—when ice sheets blocked transit through the continental interior—imply a Pacific Coast route was the more likely pathway for dispersals from Beringia into North America between ~26,000 and 14,000 y ago. Beringia, also called Bering Land Bridge, between northeastern Asia and northwestern North America and that were associated with periods of worldwide glaciation and subsequent lowering of sea levels. It intermittently linked present-day northwestern Canada and northern and western Alaska, U.S., with northeastern Siberia, Russia, during the Pleistocene Epoch (about 2,600,000 to about 11,700 years ago). It is particularly associated with the most recent of these regions, which began to appear about 38,000 years ago and remained in place roughly until the end of the Pleistocene, at which time The present-day Bering Strait between Alaska and Siberia (linking what are now the Arctic Ocean and the Bering Sea) opened and severed the intercontinental land connection.
THE PLEISTOCENE ICE AGE
At the time of the Pleistocene, the continents had moved to their current positions.
At one point during the Ice Age, sheets of ice covered all of Antarctica, large parts of Europe, North America, and South America, and small areas in Asia.
In North America they stretched over Greenland and Canada and parts of the northern United States.
The remains of glaciers of the Ice Age can still be seen in parts of the world, including Greenland and Antarctica.
There was a lot of movement over time, and there were about 20 cycles when the glaciers would advance and retreat as they thawed and refroze.
In general, it is felt that ice ages are caused by a chain reaction of positive feedbacks triggered by periodic changes in the Earth's orbit around the Sun. These feedbacks, involving the spread of ice and the release of greenhouse gases, work in reverse to warm the Earth up again when the orbital cycle shifts back. That what is happening right now to us. The Earth is warming up, and too fast at that!
So there were people 20,000 years ago who escaped the lower land's ice age by migrating South into what is now called the Middle East and settled in Arabia.
Resource:
https://gml.noaa.gov/outreach/info_activities/pdfs/PSA_ice_ages.pdf
https://www.livescience.com/40311-pleistocene-epoch.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene
https://www.britannica.com/science/Pleistocene-Epoch
https://www.britannica.com/place/Beringia
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https://phys.org/news/2016-05-evidence-ice-age-refugium-arabia.html#:~:text=New%20evidence%20shows%20that%20there,on%20the%20Red%20Sea%20plains
https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/ice-age-survival-homo-sapiens/
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