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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
and 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, which allowed them to thrive in the
intensely challenging climate of the Ice Age.What do we know
about this remarkable takeover? Who were the first modern
Europeans and what were they like? How did they manage to thrive
in such an extreme environment? And what legacy did they leave
behind them after the cold millennia? The age of the Cro-Magnons
lasted some 30,000 years--longer than all of recorded history.
Cro-Magnon is the story of a little known, yet seminal, chapter
of human experience.

Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave
Birth to the First Modern Humans
By: Brian M. Fagan
ISBN13: 9781596915824
Format: EPUB
Language: EN
Pages: 615