Such a culture must have filled the gap of rising temperature and melting ice. A highly migratory social structure. From Wiki:
At the end of the last ice age, the North Sea was a great plain, and anthropological material, as well as the remains of animals such as mammoths, are sometimes recovered by trawlers. Also, because human societies have always made use of water, sometimes the remains of structures that these societies built underwater still exist (such as the foundations of crannogs,[8] bridges and harbours) when traces on dry land have been lost.
The sea rose fairly slow in human time. They started as migratory scatter gather with migration routes. Then began to be crowded by the sea and learned settled ag. A hard Malthusian life. The skill is elementary, kids can do it. So, given a few great springs in a row, we get this huge attack on atmospheric co2, a sudden drop in production. Ag camps expand, we get eight kids per parents, almost unlimited expansion each spring as climate warms, then suddenly the co2 is down, the the glacial cycle gets stuck. Stopping the warming left glacial ice sheets, the up lifting of crust failed and volcanic released ceased, mantle crust cooled just enough.
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