Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans Audiobook (Free) | AudioBooksLoft

Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans Audiobook (Free)

Summary:

Bestselling author Brian Fagan brings early human beings from the deep freeze along with his trademark mix of erudition, cutting-edge science, and vivid storytelling. Cro-Magnon reveals human society in its infancy, facing tremendous environmental challenges-including a rival varieties of human beings, the Neanderthals.

For ten millennia, Cro-Magnons lived side by side with Neanderthals, an encounter that Fagan fills with theatre. Using their superior intellects and equipment, these ingenious problem solvers survived harsh conditions that eventually extinguished their Neanderthal cousins.

Cro-Magnon catches the indomitable adaptability that has made Homo sapiens an unmatched success like a species. Living on the iced continent with only the most basic tools, Ice Age humans survived and thrived.