Cro-Magnon : how the Ice Age gave birth to the first modern humans /

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, bet...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Fagan, Brian M. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Bloomsbury Press, 2010.
Edition:	1st U.S. ed.
Subjects:	Cro-Magnons. Human evolution. Glacial epoch. Neanderthals. Prehistoric peoples. Neanderthals Homme de Cro-Magnon. Homme > Évolution. Époque glaciaire. Homme de Néanderthal. Homo neanderthalensis (extinct species) Nonfiction.

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.