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Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans Hardcover – March 2, 2010
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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.
- Print length320 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherBloomsbury Press
- Publication dateMarch 2, 2010
- Dimensions6.85 x 1.18 x 9.57 inches
- ISBN-10159691582X
- ISBN-13978-1596915824
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“[A] fascinating account…Fagan’s narratives of cave-painting and hunting – among other anecdotes – really bring this history-laden book to life.”—Green Life blog, Sierra Magazine
"Archaeology contributing editor Brian Fagan provides readers with intimate accounts of what he imagines Ice Age life was like for both the vanishing Neanderthals and the invading Homo sapiens who developed the basis of modern culture. He lauds the ‘endless ingenuity and adaptability’ of ordinary men and women living in bitterly cold Paleolithic Europe. ‘My DNA tells me that, genetically, I’m one of them,’ Fagan concludes, ‘and I’m proud of it.’”—Archaeology (Editors’ Pick)
“Fagan provides readers with a fascinating discussion of the lifestyle of Neanderthals and early modern humans… In bringing these ancient human societies to life, Fagan combines an engaging narrative style with a well-written and easily understood scholarly discussion…an excellent resource.”—National Speleological Society newsletter
“Highly entertaining and instructive…[Fagan] does an admirable job in bringing vividly to life the Europe of between eighty and ten thousand years ago… Fagan's book has been overtaken by the onward progress of his science—this happens to lots of such books—and there are aspects of his case that invite debate. But it is an admirable book nevertheless; the re-imagining of the past is entertainingly done, and a great deal of science, especially climate science, is accessibly introduced on the way.” – Barnes & Noble Review
About the Author
Brian Fagan was born in England and spent several years doing fieldwork in Africa. He is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of New York Times bestseller The Great Warming and many other books, including Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting, and the Discovery of the New World, and several books on climate history, including The Little Ice Age and The Long Summer.
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- Publisher : Bloomsbury Press; First Edition (March 2, 2010)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 320 pages
- ISBN-10 : 159691582X
- ISBN-13 : 978-1596915824
- Item Weight : 1.1 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.85 x 1.18 x 9.57 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,609,434 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #514 in Physical Anthropology (Books)
- #2,494 in History of Civilization & Culture
- #6,802 in Cultural Anthropology (Books)
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Brian Fagan was born in England and studied archaeology at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was Keeper of Prehistory at the Livingstone Museum, Zambia, from 1959-1965. During six years in Zambia and one in East Africa, he was deeply involved in fieldwork on multidisciplinary African history and in monuments conservation. He came to the United States in 1966 and was Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, from 1967 to 2004, when he became Emeritus.
Since coming to Santa Barbara, Brian has specialized in communicating archaeology to general audiences through lecturing, writing, and other media. He is regarded as one of the world’s leading archaeological and historical writers and is widely respected popular lecturer about the past. His many books include three volumes for the National Geographic Society, including the bestselling Adventure of Archaeology. Other works include The Rape of the Nile, a classic history of archaeologists and tourists along the Nile, and four books on ancient climate change and human societies, Floods, Famines, and Emperors (on El Niños), The Little Ice Age, and The Long Summer, an account of warming and humanity since the Great Ice Age. His most recent climatic work describes the Medieval Warm Period: The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations. His latest climate change book, with Nadia Durrani, is His other books include Chaco Canyon: Archaeologists Explore the Lives of an Ancient Society and Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting, and the Discovery of the New World and Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age gave birth to the First Modern Humans. His recently published Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind extends his climatic research to the most vital of all resources for humanity.
Brian has been sailing since he was eight years old and learnt his cruising in the English Channel and North Sea. He has sailed thousands of miles in European waters, across the Atlantic, and in the Pacific. He is author of the Cruising Guide to Central and Southern California, which has been a widely used set of sailing directions since 1979. An ardent bicyclist, he lives in Santa Barbara with his life Lesley and daughter Ana.
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With his most recent book, he has returned to the subject of prehistory with a comprehensive overview of the first anatomically modern humans, who he refers to as "Cro- Magnon" after the rock shelter where the first remains were discovered. Cro-Magnons are best known as the people who created the magnificent cave paintings in Europe.
When Cro-Magnons migrated into Europe from the Near East, it was already inhabited by the Neanderthals, relatives but not direct ancestors. Dr. Fagan refers to the Neanderthals as the "Quiet People" because they lacked fluent speech. They also lacked symbolism, religion, art and innovation. Their way of life was unchanged for hundreds of thousands of years. Unable to compete with their more advanced cousins, the Cro-Magnons, the Neanderthals gradually died out.
The Ice Age was not uniformly cold. There were periods of warmth when vegetation and animal populations changed. The Cro-Magnons were experts at adapting to the changing conditions, hunting large game when it was cold and smaller game when it was warm. The tools they left behind reflect the constant innovations that made them so successful. Their art, musical instruments and burials reveal their rich spiritual life.
The Cro-Magnons spread out all over Europe, hunting, foraging, constantly adapting to changing conditions for tens of thousands of years until the next wave of migration swept into Europe: farmers from the Near East. Did the Cro-Magnons die out like the Neanderthals before them? DNA tells us no. 85% of Europeans are direct descendants of Cro-Magnons.
"Cro-Magnon" offers the latest theories developed from hundreds of years of archeology devoted to European prehistory. The information is presented in a very readable form. No prior knowledge is needed by the reader. All specialized terms are explained. Brian Fagan has done it again, taken a vast and complicated subject and produced a book that is both educational and engaging.
This could have been a really great book. I'll give it a B-.
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Hat Fagan bereits in früheren Büchern den Einfluss des Klimas auf die Zivilisation beschrieben (The Little Ice Age , The Great Warming, Fish on Friday), so tut er dies hier mit gewohnter erzählerischer Stärke ohne den Leser mit zu vielen Beispielen zu erschlagen.
Beginnend mit dem Neanderthaler und Enden mit der Magdalenien Kultur versucht Fagan dem Leser das Leben in der Steinzeit vorstellbar zu machen. Dies gelingt ihm hervorragend.
Um sich besser in das Thema einzufinden, ist das Buch mit Informationsblöcken bereichert, in denen dem Leser Methoden der Archäologie genauer erklärt werden. Der Haupttext steht dabei unabhängig und kann ohne die Blöcke gelesen und verstanden werden.
So ist das Buch eine Bereicherung für den Leser, der sich bereits einen Zugang erlesen hat, als auch für einen Neueinsteiger.
まだ最後まで聞いていません。
章は1章から12章まですべてあります。
MP3が再生できるCDプレーヤーかパソコンで再生できます。
Apple iPod 対応のMP3ですが、私はiPodを持っていませんので仕方なく SOUND FORGE で
MP4に変換して携帯で聞いています。
ナレーターはイギリス人らしく発音は綺麗です。
ジョン・ウェインみたいな声だったらどうしようと心配していましたが、杞憂でした。
この手の本は専門用語ばかりでなく、フランス語、ドイツ語、その他、判らん国の単語が沢山出てきますので
音が判ると助かります。
そればかりか私のような後学の門外漢で、英語で授業など受けたことのない者にとっては本当に貴重なCDです。
アーキアラジーという詰まらない単語でさえ、音で聞くと「あ、俺の発音で良かったんだ!」と、ものすごく安心します。 今この文を読んでいて笑った貴方、私にとっては本当に切実な悩みだったのですから。
p.s. 私のこのレビューがハードカバーの本にも載っているようですが(2010/5/5現在)、CDのみの書き込みで本は関係有りません。