CroMagnon, Brian M. Fagan
CroMagnon, Brian M. Fagan
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Cro-Magnon
How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans

Author: Brian M. Fagan

Narrator: James Langton

Unabridged: 9 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/03/2010

Synopsis

Bestselling author Brian Fagan brings early humans out of the deep freeze with his trademark mix of erudition, cutting-edge science, and vivid storytelling. Cro-Magnon reveals human society in its infancy, facing enormous environmental challenges—including a rival species of humans, the Neanderthals.

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

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

About Brian M. Fagan

Brian M. Fagan is one of the world's leading archaeological writers and an internationally recognized authority on world prehistory. He is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was born in England, did fieldwork in Africa, and taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Fish on Friday, The Little Ice Age, The Long Summer, and the New York Times bestseller The Great Warming.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on January 27, 2023

An enjoyable read even if it doesn't sparkle! CRO-MAGNON may be categorized as a brief history of human pre-history, at least that portion of the world's pre-history that was peopled by what anthropologists call "modern" man - from 150,000 years ago up to approximately 12,000 years ago. Of course, mo......more

Goodreads review by L on February 04, 2013

This is an embarrassingly bad book. The last sentence of the book sums up the whole sorry mess: "My [white European] DNA tells me I'm one of them, and I'm proud of it." The book is laden with the author's romantic adolescent male fantasies about what it was like being a cro-magnon man-- emphasis on......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on June 01, 2024

When I was a student at Washington State University (back in the days of the Oregon Trail and Cholera), the term Cro-Magnon was passé. In general, we used “early modern humans” instead. In fact, I have several college textbooks on human evolution that don’t mention the term Cro-Magnon at all. Why? A......more

Goodreads review by Nicky on March 10, 2018

Cro-Magnon is reasonably informative, albeit perhaps a little out of date and about as focused on the Neanderthals as on the Cro-Magnons. It had fairly similar information to a lot of other books I’ve read about human evolution, not really managing to make the Cro-Magnons stand out as a specific gro......more

Goodreads review by Richard on March 25, 2015

Once upon a time, long, long ago, musicians Stephen Stills and Judy Collins enjoyed a romance. Then, Judy sailed away and broke his heart. Stephen wrote Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, which I recently heard again. One line made my head spin: “Don’t let the past remind us of what we are not now.” Why not? Re......more

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