Against this idea, is the fact that, so far, no post-ice age evidence of human presence has been found in the area before 7, 000 years ago.

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This is based on the way the climate behaved about 20, 000 years ago, at the peak of the last ice age, a period when carbon-dioxide concentrations leapt.

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