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Everyday life in the Ice Age : a new study of our ancestors
A truly complete, balanced and realistic picture of life during the last Ice Age, while dispelling many of the myths and inaccuracies about our early ancestors. It is aimed not only at students and specialists, but also and especially the interested public.
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Everyday Life in the Ice Age
Everyday Life in the Ice Age is the first attempt to
present a truly complete, balanced and realistic picture of life
during the last Ice Age, with its many problems and challenges,
while dispelling many of the myths and inaccuracies about our early
ancestors. One of the most common questions asked by visitors to
Europe's decorated caves is 'What was life like for these people?'
No previous book has ever managed to answer this question, and most
studies of the period are aimed entirely at academics, tending to
focus on tool-types rather than what the tools were used for. Women
and children are almost invisible in these studies. The book
examines all aspects of the lives of biologically modern humans in
Europe from about 40,000 to 12,000 years ago, the period known as
the Last Ice Age, a time of radical change in climate and
environment. It explores how people were able to cope with and
adapt to the often rapid alterations in their circumstances. Elle
Clifford's background in Social Psychology brings important
insights into aspects of the past which are never normally
discussed - domestic and family life, pregnancy and child-rearing,
and care of the sick and elderly. The book is aimed not only at
students and specialists, but also and especially the interested
public, for whom the most interesting questions are: How were they
like us? and what behaviours do we share?
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