This is an archaeological trivia question that I'm not sure about and suddenly clicked in my mind.
Check this map first:
http://www.handprint.com/LS/ANC/disp.gifNotice the climatic patter for 16,000 BCE, notice the Ice Cap and the North Pole: it is strangely on the edge of the ice cap; Siberia is relatively warm. My logical deduction would be that, apart of any changes in sea currents and so on, the location of the poles would actually have tilted to northern Greenland or Iceland.
So the question is: do we know for sure that the geographical poles were at its modern position in the last glaciation?
Miscellaneous question: am I missing something? (This other map shows siberia as an artic desert - it may be more logic somehow).