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Last Glacial Maximum
The Last Glacial Maximum, also referred to as the Last Glacial Coldest Period, was the most recent time during the Last Glacial Period where ice sheets were at their greatest extent 26,000 and 20,000 years ago.
Last Glacial Maximum refugia
places (refugia) in which humans and other species survived during the Last Glacial Period, around 25,000 to 18,000 years ago.
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