Last Glacial Maximum refugia

European LGM refuges, 20 kya.

  Solutrean and Proto-Solutrean Cultures

  Epi-Gravettian Culture

Last Glacial Maximum refugia were places where people survived during the last glacial period in the northern hemisphere, around 20–25,000 years ago.

Sub-Saharan Africa and Australia were not affected by the glaciation (although vast areas of those continents were then too dry for human habitation of any sort including the most primitive foragers) and the Americas and New Zealand had no humans at that time. Therefore these shelters are located mainly in Eurasia. Several of them have been studied.

Europe

• Solutrean
• Gravettian
• Franco-Cantabrian region

North Africa

• Ibero-Maurusian
• Capsian culture

Asia

• Kebaran culture
• Japan, Jōmon period

See also

• Magdalenian
• Synoptic table of the principal old world prehistoric cultures
• Upper Paleolithic
• Eurasiatic languages