Cro-Magnon How the Ice Age gave birth to the first modern humans

Cro-Magnon reveals human society in its infacny, facing enermous environmental challenges from glaciers, predators and a rival horminid species - the Neanderthals. Cro-Magnon conveys the adaptability and ingenuity that have made humans an unmatched success as a species and enabled our ancestors to s...

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Main Author: Fagan, Brian (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Bloomsbury Press 2011
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Table of Contents:
  • Momentous encounters
  • Neanderthal ancestors
  • Neanderthals and their world
  • The quiet people
  • The ten thousandth grandmother
  • Great mobility
  • The realm of the Lion Man
  • Fat, flints, and furs
  • The Gravettians
  • The power of the hunt
  • The Magdalenians
  • The challenge of warming