Climate catastrophes create refugee chaos

 Must be time Hollywood made another Ice Age movie about it.

Ice-age art hints at how humans flourished The newest finds from the Hohle Fels cave — a site in Germany that archaeologists have been exploring for decades — include a pair of tiny bird figurines carved from mammoth ivory, and fragments of a vulture-bone flute. These and other artworks found in the cave provide a window into the minds of some of Europe’s earliest Homo sapiens. Archaeologist Nicholas Conard, who leads the excavation, argues that the artistic capabilities of these early humans mark a shift in cognitive and cultural sophistication that might have helped them to flourish in ice-age Europe, when other groups vanished