Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans (Paperback) - Common
They survived by their wits in a snowbound world, hunting, and sometimes being hunted by, animals many times their size. By flickering firelight, they drew bison, deer, and mammoths on cavern walls- vibrant images that seize our imaginations after thirty thousand years. They are known to...
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They survived by their wits in a snowbound world, hunting, and sometimes being hunted by, animals many times their size. By flickering firelight, they drew bison, deer, and mammoths on cavern walls- vibrant images that seize our imaginations after thirty thousand years. They are known to archaeologists as the Cro-Magnons-but who were they? Simply put, these people were among the first anatomically...
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
0884543525097
ASIN: B00FDVMNDI
Publish date: 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
This is an interesting study of how the Cro-Magnon survived the Ice Age in Europe. It is organized not as "archaeologists discovered this, and then they discovered that" but in a "this is what we think their life was like," in chronological order. The earlier chapters discuss the Neanderthals as...
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