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Late Glacial Period

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Late Glacial Period 

the time of the waning of the last Anthropogenic glaciation, when continental ice in the northern hemisphere gradually decreased in area. The Late Glacial period encompasses the end of the Pleistocene and the beginning of the Holocene, extending approximately from 14000 to 6000 B.C.



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Only in a few of them, such as Lake Kirikumae and Solova (Remmeski) Bog, postglacial sediments started to accumulate in the late glacial period (Pirrus 1969; Saarse & Rajamae 1997).
1999: 12-13) indicates that this is the time before the climatically very dynamic period of rapidly and substantially increasing temperatures at the start of Greenland Interstadial 1 or Bolling-Allerod at the transition from the Vistulian Pleniglacial to the relatively warm early part of the Late Glacial period (Balwierz & Gozdzik 1997; Johnsen et al.
This chapter makes the point that in the late glacial period extensive ice cover and no possible food resources would have been barriers to human movement along the coast southwards from Beringia until 13.
 
 
 
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