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Last Glacial Maximum

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Last Glacial Maximum
Weichseleiszeit
Würm glaciation Label from public data source Wikidata

Sources

found: Work cat.: The last glacial maximum and deglaciation, northern North Atlantic rim, 2003.

found: Encyclopedic dictionary of archaeology, c2000:p. 300 (Last Glacial Maximum, geological period dating 25,000-14,000 bp during which global temps reached lowest levels of the Upper Pleistocene)

found: Wikipedia WWW site, Feb. 21, 2006(Last Glacial Maximum, time of maximum extent of the ice sheets during the last glaciation, approx. 21 thousand years ago)

notfound: A dictionary of archaeology, 1999;Facts on file dictionary of archaeology, 1983; Encyclopedia of archaeology, 1999

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2006-02-24: new

2006-04-19: revised

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