31. It was hunted to extinction about 7000 BCE, just after the end of the last glacial period . 32. Both hypotheses place Proto-Nostratic within the Fertile Crescent at around the end of the last glacial period . 33. After an important retreat, the glacier again advanced 11, 000 years ago during the last glacial period . 34. The Montenegrin mountains were the most ice-eroded section of the Balkan Peninsula during the last glacial period . 35. The region's peculiar terrain is the result of its having escaped glaciation in the last glacial period . 36. At differing times during the last last glacial period it was either joined to the mainland or an island. 37. The last glacial period ended about 10, 000 years ago, resulting in the present distribution of ecoregions. 38. During the last glacial period native gold was freed from the host rock and became available for placer mining. 39. There are many lakes and moraines, legacies of the last glacial period , which ended about ten millennia ago. 40. The ancient shoreline of the last glacial period is now under approximately 390 feet ( 120 meters ) of water.
