
The Maquan river, the higher part of the Yarlung Tsangpo river, which flows by way of the Tibetan Plateau
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Historical humans managed to reside on the Tibetan Plateau, the best plateau on Earth, in the course of the coldest interval of the previous 2.5 million years, demonstrating their resilience and flexibility.
The final glacial most spanned 26,500 to 19,000 years in the past, marking the harshest chapter of the Late Pleistocene ice age. Throughout this time, polar ice caps and ice sheets lined huge swathes of Earth and world temperatures hovered round 4°C to five°C under people who happen on common as we speak.…