Last Glacial Maximum refugia

European LGM refuges, 20 kya.

  Solutrean and Proto-Solutrean cultures

  Epi-Gravettian culture

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Last Glacial Maximum refugia were places (refugia) in which humans and other species survived during the Last Glacial Period in the Northern Hemisphere, around 25,000 to 20,000 years ago.

Sub-Saharan Africa and Australia were not affected by the glaciation although vast areas of them were too dry for human habitation of any sort, even by the most specialised and well-adapted foragers, and the Americas and New Zealand had no humans at the time. Therefore, the shelters were mainly in Eurasia. Several of them have been studied.

Europe[]

• Solutrean
• Gravettian
• Pavlovian culture
• Franco-Cantabrian region
• Würm glaciation

North Africa[]

• Ibero-Maurusian
• Capsian culture

Asia[]

• Kebaran culture
• Japan, Jōmon period

See also[]

• Glacial relict
• Magdalenian
• Upper Paleolithic
• Eurasiatic languages

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