Professor Danielle Schreve

So, the Younger Dryas is manifested differently in different parts of the world, but certainly that's what we would expect for Northwest Europe.

It is indeed. So we often use local stage names, which are particularly appropriate for Britain. So if you were to say the Loch Lomond Stadium, people would understand exactly what that was. And that also conjures up a very specific set of circumstances. So the presence of ice sheets up in Scotland, the kinds of cold climate animals that we've been describing just now,

It is indeed. So we often use local stage names, which are particularly appropriate for Britain. So if you were to say the Loch Lomond Stadium, people would understand exactly what that was. And that also conjures up a very specific set of circumstances. So the presence of ice sheets up in Scotland, the kinds of cold climate animals that we've been describing just now,

It is indeed. So we often use local stage names, which are particularly appropriate for Britain. So if you were to say the Loch Lomond Stadium, people would understand exactly what that was. And that also conjures up a very specific set of circumstances. So the presence of ice sheets up in Scotland, the kinds of cold climate animals that we've been describing just now,

Whereas, obviously, if the Younger Dryas is manifested differently in different parts of the world, then they would also have their own local stage names as well.

Whereas, obviously, if the Younger Dryas is manifested differently in different parts of the world, then they would also have their own local stage names as well.

Whereas, obviously, if the Younger Dryas is manifested differently in different parts of the world, then they would also have their own local stage names as well.

So, saiga antelope are fantastic animals and they are a small bovid, a small antelope. They live today in really the sort of heartlands of dry central and eastern Asia, so particularly populations in Mongolia and Kazakhstan. Until recently, they have been critically endangered, but thank goodness their numbers are now on the rise again.

So, saiga antelope are fantastic animals and they are a small bovid, a small antelope. They live today in really the sort of heartlands of dry central and eastern Asia, so particularly populations in Mongolia and Kazakhstan. Until recently, they have been critically endangered, but thank goodness their numbers are now on the rise again.

So, saiga antelope are fantastic animals and they are a small bovid, a small antelope. They live today in really the sort of heartlands of dry central and eastern Asia, so particularly populations in Mongolia and Kazakhstan. Until recently, they have been critically endangered, but thank goodness their numbers are now on the rise again.

They are very well adapted to living in arid and pretty dusty environments. If you happen to look them up and you see photos of them, you'll see that they have this fantastic nozzle-like nose. They can use it to filter that dry, dusty air, cold air before it gets into the lungs.

They are very well adapted to living in arid and pretty dusty environments. If you happen to look them up and you see photos of them, you'll see that they have this fantastic nozzle-like nose. They can use it to filter that dry, dusty air, cold air before it gets into the lungs.

They are very well adapted to living in arid and pretty dusty environments. If you happen to look them up and you see photos of them, you'll see that they have this fantastic nozzle-like nose. They can use it to filter that dry, dusty air, cold air before it gets into the lungs.

And although they are essentially Central Asian animals and always have been, in response to this sort of cold and arid pulse that we find in the Younger Dryas, they expand their range at the time. We find them over in Alaska and to the west, we find them over in Somerset. So there are radiocarbon-dated remains from Gough's cave and also from some other cave sites in Cheddar Gorge as well.

And although they are essentially Central Asian animals and always have been, in response to this sort of cold and arid pulse that we find in the Younger Dryas, they expand their range at the time. We find them over in Alaska and to the west, we find them over in Somerset. So there are radiocarbon-dated remains from Gough's cave and also from some other cave sites in Cheddar Gorge as well.

And although they are essentially Central Asian animals and always have been, in response to this sort of cold and arid pulse that we find in the Younger Dryas, they expand their range at the time. We find them over in Alaska and to the west, we find them over in Somerset. So there are radiocarbon-dated remains from Gough's cave and also from some other cave sites in Cheddar Gorge as well.

So a fantastic but rare addition to the fauna in Britain at this time.

So a fantastic but rare addition to the fauna in Britain at this time.

So a fantastic but rare addition to the fauna in Britain at this time.

No, again, we just don't have the sites. Certainly at the sites that we've been working on in Ebba Gorge, we don't have evidence of artefacts, we don't have evidence of cut-marked remains, and we certainly don't have evidence of people themselves.