| World climates 20 thousand years ago | DarkAgeTheorist | 6/13/09 1:48 PM | This is based on the map found on the Wikipedia page for the Last Glacial Maximum. I have simplified the vegetation categories to six: rainforest, woodland, scrub, grassland, steppe/tundra, desert, ice. |
| World climates 30 thousand years ago | DarkAgeTheorist | 6/13/09 1:58 PM | The Europe/Africa/Asia/Australia part of the map is derived from Out of Eden by Stephen Oppenheimer (p. 246). The Americas part of the map is largely guesswork, drawing on the Quaternary Environments Network and Global Environments through the Quater |
| World climates 40 thousand years ago | DarkAgeTheorist | 6/13/09 2:07 PM | The map is largely guesswork, drawing on the Quaternary Environments Network and Global Environments through the Quaternary by David Anderson, Andrew Goudie and Adrian Parker. My basic technique was to assume that this epoch was colder and drier than |
| World climates today (version 2) | DarkAgeTheorist | 7/14/09 8:00 AM | I am re-upping this because I discovered that in the last upload the file was not visible by default, which is not what I wanted. Here is the text accompanying my original upload: This shows the different types of vegetation cover around the world |
| Palaeoclimate animation | DarkAgeTheorist | 7/14/09 1:44 PM | This is an animation of global climates (more precisely, global land environments) at ten thousand year intervals, from 40,000 BC to the present. Note that it takes into account the correct coastline at each era, and so does not follow the present o |
| Re: World climates 20 thousand years ago | kalin tarak | 8/10/10 7:39 PM | thank you. |