Ice Age Neanderthals
Author: Rebecca Stefoff
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9780761441861
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis series takes readers on a journey through the evolutionary history of humans.
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Cro-Magnon
Author: Brian Fagan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2011-05-17
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1608194051
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCro-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 theCro-Magnons and the archaic Neanderthals, between 45,000 and 30,000 years ago, was one of the defining moments of history. The Neanderthals survived for some 15,000 years in the face of the newcomers, but were finally pushed aside by the Cro-Magnons' vastly superior intellectual abilities and cutting-edge technologies. What do we know about this remarkable takeover? Who were these first modern Europeans and what were they like? How did they manage to thrive in such an extreme environment? And what legacydid they leave behind them after the cold millennia? This is the story of a little known, yet seminal, chapter of human experience.--From publisher description.
Cro-Magnon
Author: Brian M. Fagan
Publisher: Tantor Media Incorporated
Published: 2014-05-09
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781400195947
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFagan reveals human society in its infancy, facing enormous environmental challenges--including a rival species of humans, the Neanderthals.
When We Met Neanderthals
Author: Neil Bockoven
Publisher:
Published: 2019-05
Total Pages: 42
ISBN-13: 9781643165721
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"After living 250,000 years in ice age Europe, Neanderthals went extinct shortly after we arrived. Why? This engaging story, paired with many Science Corner facts, serves to answer the question. Children will discover some of their heritage--why most of us are part Neanderthal, and what may have happened to this other human species"--
Children of the Ice Age
Author: Steven M. Stanley
Publisher: Harmony
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs demonstrated by the popular writings of Donald Johanson, Richard Leakey, and Stephen Jay Gould, the contending theories of human evolution hold a special fascination for book buyers. In this book, Stanley offers an intriguing new answer to the classic question about which came first, bipedal locomotion or the large brain of our own genus, Homo. Line drawings.
What Was the Ice Age?
Author: Nico Medina
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2017-10-10
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 0399543902
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA mesmerizing overview of the world as it was when glaciers covered the earth and long-extinct creatures like the woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats battled to survive. Go back 20,000 years ago to a time of much colder global temperatures when glaciers and extensive sheets of ice covered much of our planet. As these sheets traveled, they caused enormous changes in the Earth's landscape and climate, leading to the evolution of creatures such as giant armadillos, saber-toothed cats, and woolly mammoths as well as club-wielding Neanderthals and later the cleverer modern humans. Nico Medina re-creates this harsh ancient world in a vivid and easy-to-read narrative.
Desolate Landscapes
Author: John F. Hoffecker
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780813529929
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe burning question, of course, is why a creature that originated in cozy tropical Africa would go live in a cold and dry place, especially at its coldest and driest, between 300,000 and 12,000 years ago. Alas, no pioneer journals survive, at least translated into a modern European language; and Hoffecker (U. of Colorado-Boulder), a specialist in the archaeology of people in cold environments, true to his sources, remains silent on the issue. He summarizes the Ice Age settlement of Eastern European during the transition from Neanderthals to immediate human ancestors, within the context of human evolution as a whole. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Growing Up in the Ice Age
Author: April Nowell
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2021-06-09
Total Pages: 463
ISBN-13: 1789252954
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn prehistoric societies children comprised 40–65% of the population, yet by default, our ancestral landscapes are peopled by adults who hunt, gather, fish, knap tools, and make art. But these adults were also parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles who had to make space physically, emotionally, intellectually, and cognitively for the infants, children, and adolescents around them. Growing Up in the Ice Age is a timely and evidence-based look at the lived lives of Paleolithic children and the communities of which they were a part. By rendering these ‘invisible’ children visible, readers will gain a new understanding of the Paleolithic period as a whole, and in doing so will learn how children have contributed to the biological and cultural entities we are today.
Ice Age Hunters
Author: Stephen Green
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn attractive museum booklet illustrating the wealth of evidence for Neanderthals and Early Modern Hunters' in the caves of south and north Wales - from Paviland to Pontnewydd. Good plans, good pictures, good text.
Ice Age Extinctions, a New Theory
Author: John Stojanowski
Publisher:
Published: 2016-02-23
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780981922157
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor at least the past century scientists have been trying to explain the extinction of megafauna during the past Ice Ages. Mammoths, mastodons, giant ground sloths, cave bears and many other mammals disappeared throughout the Pleistocene Epoch. The last of these giant animals became extinct around 10-12 thousand years ago. Human hunting and climate change are the competing extinction hypotheses but neither has consistently emerged as the dominant explanation. Is there a third contender that is better able to explain the extinctions? Yes there is and this book describes the theory that not only can explain the megafauna extinctions but the extinctions of the Neanderthals, the Hobbit and the cause of geomagnetic reversals of the Earth. The coincidence of extinction periods, flood basalt volcanic eruption and geomagnetic reversals during the Pleistocene Epoch is well documented. The author's theory described in this book is the only one that can explain this coincidence.
