Note publique d'information : During the Last Ice Age, Europe was a cold, dry place teeming with mammoths, woolly
rhinoceroses, reindeer, bison, cave bears, cave hyenas, and cave lions. It was also
the home of people physically indistinguishable from humans today, commonly known
as the Cro-Magnons. Our knowledge of them comes from either their skeletons or the
tools, art, and debris they left behind.This book tells the story of these dynamic
and resilient people in light of recent scientific advances. Trenton Holliday-a paleoanthropologist
who has studied the Cro-Magnons for decades-explores questions such as: Where and
when did anatomically modern humans first emerge? When did they reach Europe, and
via what routes? How extensive or frequent were their interactions with Neandertals?
What did Cro-Magnons look like? What did they eat, and how did they acquire their
food? What can we learn about their lives from studying their skeletons? How did they
deal with the glacial cold? What does their art tell us about them?Holliday offers
new insights into these ancient people from anthropological, archaeological, genetic,
and geological perspectives. He also considers how the Cro-Magnons responded to Earth's
postglacial warming almost 12,000 years ago, showing that how they dealt with climate
change holds valuable lessons for us as we negotiate life on a rapidly warming planet
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