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A Los Angeles Times Bestseller New York Times best-selling author Brian Fagan explores the world of the Cro-Magnons—the mysterious, little-known race, famous for its cave paintings, that survived the Ice Age and became the ancestors of today's humans. 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 h

Who reads Cro-Magnon : How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans?

Author

Fagan, Brian

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9783251987313

Category

history

Subjects

History, Anthropology, Science

Rating

3.66 / 5 (162 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14