Editorial Bloomsbury USA
Fecha de edición mayo 2011
Idioma inglés
EAN 9781608194056
320 páginas
Libro
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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.
Brian Fagan es profesor emérito de Antropología en la Universidad de California en Santa Bárbara. Nacido en Inglaterra, Fagan ha realizado trabajos de campo en África y ha escrito sobre temas arqueológicos de América del Norte y el mundo. Sus libros acerca de la interacción entre el clima y el hombre lo han elevado a la categoría de autoridad en la materia. Con frecuencia viaja por el mundo dando conferencias sobre los temas de sus obras. Entre sus obras destacan: The Oxford Companion to Archaeology y ha escrito libros como "Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting and the Discovery of the New World". Editorial Gedisa ha publicado con gran éxito de público y crítica "El largo verano" y "La Pequeña Edad de Hielo" y "El Gran Calentamiento".
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