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Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans
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Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans Paperback - 2011

by Brian Fagan

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From the publisher

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 modern humans. For millennia, their hunter-gatherer culture flourished in small pockets across Ice Age Europe, the distant forerunner to the civilization we live in now.

Bestselling author Brian Fagan brings these early humans out of the deep freeze with his trademark mix of erudition, cutting-edge science, and vivid storytelling. Cro-Magnon reveals human society in its infancy, facing enormous environmental challenges from glaciers, predators, and a rival species of humans-the Neanderthals. Cro-Magnon captures the adaptability that has made humans an unmatched success as a species. Living on a frozen continent with only crude tools, Ice Age humans survived and thrived. In these pages, we meet our most remarkable ancestors.

Details

  • Title Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans
  • Author Brian Fagan
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 295
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, New York, NY
  • Publication date 2011-05
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781608194056 / 1608194051
  • Weight 0.67 lbs (0.30 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.32 x 5.56 x 0.87 in (21.13 x 14.12 x 2.21 cm)
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress subjects Prehistoric peoples, Glacial epoch
  • Dewey Decimal Code 569.98

About the author

Brian Fagan was born in England and spent several years doing fieldwork in Africa. He is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of New York Times bestseller The Great Warming and many other books, including Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting, and the Discovery of the New World, and several books on climate history, including The Little Ice Age and The Long Summer.

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