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After the Ice A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC

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ISBN-10: 0674019997

ISBN-13: 9780674019997

Edition: 2003

Authors: Steven Mithen

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20,000 B.C. , the peak of the last ice age--the atmosphere is heavy with dust, deserts, and glaciers span vast regions, and people, if they survive at all, exist in small, mobile groups, facing the threat of extinction. But these people live on the brink of seismic change--10,000 years of climate shifts culminating in abrupt global warming that will usher in a fundamentally changed human world. After the Ice is the story of this momentous period--one in which a seemingly minor alteration in temperature could presage anything from the spread of lush woodland to the coming of apocalyptic floods--and one in which we find the origins of civilization itself. Drawing on the latest research…    
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Book details

List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/30/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 664
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English