Cro-Magnon : How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans

from shadowmatter

I found "Cro-Magnon" to be a fine book for general audiences. I personally prefer more in-depth information. It was nice to be told in the Author's Note that the subject would not be specialized. While reading I found myself asking questions and wanting to learn more. The Chapter Notes provided t...

from bfertig

I am waffling about what to rate this one. It was interesting but probably could have been shortened a bit and I felt there were some flaws and some stylistic things I would have preferred otherwise. It was a fast read (for me) - about a week, with most of it going by on two airplanes. The conten...

from davesmind

Brian Fagan is an anthropologist and emeritus professor at UC Santa Barbara. He is an author of a number of books and scholarly articles on early man. This new book "Cro-Magnon" is written for the non-specialist, but it does a good job at communicating much of the new research in the field. Overa...

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I know very little about pre-history and thought this would be a good introduction to Europe 60k->11k BP. Maybe it was because I listened to the audio-version, I wanted to give it higher marks, but it just didn't gel. The first half is either a repeat of well known information, or specialized kno...

from JeffV

In Cro-Magnon, Brian Fagan delivers the current state-of-knowledge regarding our stone-age selves and summarizes archeological evidence to date. As someone with a casual interest the subject, I might read up on it every 10 years or so; watching a handful of documentaries in the meantime. Fagan co...