Adapting to climate change may have been easier 13,500 yrs ago

Adapting to climate change may have been easier in the past, according to a new study.

Samuel Munoz, now a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and geologist Konrad Gajewski at the University of Ottawa measured the effects of five major climate change events in North America.
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Some of the changes were abrupt, some more gradual, but largely 'every cultural transition corresponds to a major transition in the climate and vegetation of the region', observed the researchers.

When climate change altered food resources for pre-agricultural American Indians, they shifted strategy, and sometimes population size.

Maybe Munoz and Gajewski could test their "easier adaptation to temperature changes" hypothesis by spending a year in a forest near Madison or Ottawa, starting with nothing but some flint and some animal skins.