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They survived by their wits in a snowbound world, hunting, and sometimes being hunted by, family pets many times their size. By flickering firelight, they drew bison, deer, and mammoths on cavern walls- attractive images that seize our imaginations after thirty thousand years. They are known to archaeologists as the Cro-Magnons-but who were they? Simply put, these people were one of the primary anatomically modern humans. For millennia, their hunter-gatherer culture flourished in small wallets across Ice Years Europe, the distant forerunner to the civilization we stay in now.

Bestselling author Brian Fagan brings these early on humans from the deep freeze with his trademark mixture of erudition, cutting-edge science, and brilliant storytelling. Cro-Magnon reveals real human society in its infancy, facing extensive environmental obstacles from glaciers, predators, and a rival species of humans-the Neanderthals. Cro-Magnon catches the adaptability that has made humans an unparalleled success as a species. Living over a frozen continent with only crude tools, Snow Years humans survived and thrived. In these pages, we meet our most exceptional ancestors.