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The Ancients

End of Ice Age Britain

23 Feb 2025

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As Ice Age Britain thawed, temperatures surged, sea levels rose, and humans and animals faced a fight for survival. But this shift was anything but simple.In this final episode of our Ice Age miniseries, Tristan Hughes is joined by Professor Danielle Schreve to uncover the turbulent end of the last Ice Age in Britain. Discover how mammals like Siberian lemmings and Saiga antelope roamed this icy landscape, how the Younger Dryas cold snap 13,000 years ago reshaped Britain's prehistoric environment, and how early humans adapted to survive it. With echoes for today’s climate challenges, this is a story of resilience on the fringes of the Ice Age world.Presented by Tristan Hughes. Audio editor is Aidan Lonergan, the producer is Joseph Knight. The senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff.All music courtesy of Epidemic SoundsThe Ancients is a History Hit podcast.Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe. You can take part in our listener survey here: https://insights.historyhit.com/history-hit-podcast-always-on

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0.249 - 22.775 Tristan Hughes

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55.694 - 63.757 Alina

Hallo ihr Mäuse, wir sind Janni und Alina vom Podcast Wine Wednesday. Und wir spielen am 12.06. im Kino am Olympiasee.

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64.437 - 68.599 Janni

Sagt man am Olympiasee? Oder im Olympiasee?

68.839 - 70.88 Alina

Nee, paddeln wir da drin rum oder was?

71.94 - 90.711 Janni

Oh, das wäre geil, so eine Tretbootshow. Und wir spielen am 12.06. am Kino im Olympiasee. Im Kino am Olympiasee. And we play on the 12th of June in the cinema at Olympiasee in cooperation with our partner Backmarket, a live show, our very first Open Air.

91.492 - 105.965 Alina

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125.888 - 149.73 Tristan Hughes

The end of Ice Age Britain. A time of rapidly changing temperatures, of ice sheets melting, sea levels rising, and humans adapting to a more expansive and warmer Britain. A Britain that became cut off from the rest of Europe, that became an island. But these changes didn't happen overnight, and it wasn't a simple straight-line case of things going from cold to warm either.

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