What percentage of the human race survived the last Ice Age?

The chief technologies that allowed this were the humble awl and sewing needle. A human heeds tailored clothes to survive in an Arctic winter. Being loosely wrapped in tanned skins isn’t enough. We invaded the North before the coldest part of the last ice age and stayed through it. read more

Early Humans Survive the Ice Age (4 min) tv-pg A 1,000 year-long ice age known as the Younger Dryas may have brought together different groups of prehistoric humans from across the Americas. read more

The last major ice age ended about 10,000 years ago. Anatomically modern humans have existed for about 100,000 years. During the ice age, 2 distinct species of humans coexisted, homo sapiens (modern humans) and homo neanderthalensis (neanderthals). read more