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Cro-Magnon: How The Ice Age Gave Birth To The First Modern Humans (2010)

by Brian M. Fagan(Favorite Author)

3.65 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

159691582X (ISBN13: 9781596915824)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Bloomsbury Press

review 1: Boils down a highly speculative, hotly debated science down to arguments and facts a normal person can understand. Makes great attempts to put the reader in the place of the Cro-Magnon and Neanderthals, and mostly succeeds. Not a topic most would find fascinating or even interesting, but I overall really enjoyed learning from this book. Really interesting is the introduction of climatology in the discussion about how the Cro-Magnon adapted and survived the changing landscape and weather over millennia, and how that adaptation helped outlast the Neanderthals. I'm not an anthropologist or historical climatologist expert but do have an interest, so this book was geared towards folks like me.
review 2: Fagan takes the scientific evidence of the migration of Neande... morerthal and Cro-Magnon humans from Africa into Europe and their endurance through the ice age and then paints vivid imaginative scenes of their hunts, tool making, art and ceremonies. For him, the Cro-Magnon relationship with the supernatural, as evidenced by their art, was also evidence of their imagination. And he credits them, the direct ancestors of modern humans, with an imagination that led to innovations, making them better able to survive and thrive in during a time of climactic change than their Neanderthal kin. less

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