After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC (Paperback)

from avarisclari

A fantastic journey into the past. I felt as though I was hiding in the grassy fields of ancient Europe, looking over the wild steppes, and even feeling the pain of making my own Flint tools with unskilled hands. Truly marvellous.

from setnahkt

People are first amazed, then terrified as rising sea level caused by global warming – 7° C in 50 years - overwhelms coastal plains, turning lowlands to scattered islands, then drowning those island. Entire ecosystems disappear or are modified beyond recognition. Savannas change to desert, alpine...

from JBreedlove

A very good overview of late Pleistocene and early Holocene history. It is not usually part of the context we have when we think of the past. We know we started in Mesopotamia but where and why did civilization get its start there. That is one of the questions to which this book gives background ...

from crop

While interested in the subject matter, I had to abandon this book half way through. Much of it is presented in a fictionalised narrative, speculating what a particular time traveller sees when visiting the various times and places detailed by this book. While this is done, no doubt, because some...

from eriktrips

Most of this book actually is written in the footnotes: while the narrative itself is a clear synthesis of archaeological data into a readable account of various world cultures after the last Great Ice Age, the footnotes provide a guide to the academic literature as it is listed in the huge bibli...