# Late Glacial warming transforms landscapes (-14500)

URL: https://history-france.com/timeline/-14500-late-glacial-warming-transforms-landscapes
Location: France

Retreating ice and ecological change altered hunting, settlement and subsistence patterns. Within the broader Prehistoric France period, From the earliest hominin traces to the Iron Age, the territory of modern France saw repeated migrations, changing climates, technological innovations and increasingly complex communities long before a French state existed. At this point in the timeline, the relevant governing authority is Prehistoric communities (No single ruler). Late Glacial warming transforms landscapes is a useful marker in the longer transformation of political authority, society and culture in France. The event is positioned here so visitors can read it alongside changes in government, warfare, society, religion, culture and France’s wider international setting.

## Why it matters
Late Glacial warming transforms landscapes is a useful marker in the longer transformation of political authority, society and culture in France.

Ruler at the time: [Prehistoric communities](https://history-france.com/rulers/prehistoric-communities)

## Sources
- [Wikipedia topic lookup — Late Glacial warming transforms landscapes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Late+Glacial+warming+transforms+landscapes&go=Go)
- [Encyclopaedia Britannica topic lookup — Late Glacial warming transforms landscapes](https://www.britannica.com/search?query=Late+Glacial+warming+transforms+landscapes)
- [Wikipedia — History of France overview](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_France)