After The Ice: A Global Human History - Hardcover

Mithen, Steven

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0297643185 ISBN 13: 9780297643180

Publisher: Orion, 2003

Synopsis

Twenty thousand years ago Earth was in the midst of an ice age. Then global warming arrived, leading to massive floods, the spread of forests and the retreat of the deserts. By 5,000 BC a radically different human world had appeared. In place of hunters and gatherers there were farmers; in place of transient campsites there were towns. The foundations of our modern world had been laid and nothing that came after - the industrial revolution, the atomic age, the internet - have ever matched the significance of those events.

After the Ice tells the story of climate change's impact during this momentous period - one that also saw the colonisation of the Americas and mass extictions of animals throughout the world. Drawing on the latest cutting-edge research in archaeology, cognitive science, paleontology, geology and the evolutionary sciences, Steven Mithen creates an evocative, original and remarkably complete picture of minds, cultures, lives and landscapes through 15,000 years of history.

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Review:

'A big and important book ... ambitious and original and stimulating' -- The Scotsman, 21 June 2003

'A charming read and an up-to-date informative resource. After the Ice is an exceptional book' -- Mike Pitts, New Scientist, 12 July 2003

'For clarity of expression, fluency of language, vividness of imagination he is unrivalled in his field' -- Felipe Fenández-Armesto, Literary Review, July 2003

Book Description:

Take a trip back in time. 15,000 years that laid the foundations of the modern world.

About this edition

• Publisher: Orion
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0297643185
• ISBN 13: 9780297643180
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 622