Cro-Magnon : how the Ice Age gave birth to the first modern humans / Brian Fagan.
Cro-Magnon : how the Ice Age gave birth to the first modern humans / Brian Fagan.
Cro-Magnon : how the Ice Age gave birth to the first modern humans / Brian Fagan.
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Publisher
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2010.
Date
2010.
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N569.98/2
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English
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Physical content
xviii, 295 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
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.
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New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2010.
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2010.
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Summary
Cro-Magnons were the first fully modern Europeans--not only the creators of the stunning cave paintings at Lascaux and elsewhere, but the most adaptable and technologically inventive people that had yet lived on earth. The prolonged encounter between the Cro-Magnons and the archaic Neanderthals, between 45,000 and 30,000 years ago, was one of the d...
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Cro-Magnon : how the Ice Age gave birth to the first modern humans / Brian Fagan.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N569.98/2
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74VKm2rBmooX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKm2rBmooX
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ISBN
159691582X (alk. paper)
9781596915824 (alk. paper)
DDC
569.98
MMS ID
991020445579702626
