Cro-Magnon: The Story of the Last Ice Age People of Europe Paperback by Trenton W. Holliday, Columbia University Press, 296 pages, ISBN-10: 0231204973, ISBN-13: 978-0231204972, During the Last Ice Age, Europe was a cold, dry place teeming with mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, reindeer, bison, cave bears, cave hyenas, and cave lions. It was also the home of people physically indistinguishable from humans today, commonly known as the Cro-Magnons. Our knowledge of these ancient people has to come from either their skeletons or the tools, art, and debris they left behind. This book tells the story of these dynamic and resilient people in light of recent scientific advances. Trenton Holliday, a paleoanthropologist who has studied the Cro-Magnons for decades explores questions such as: Where and when did anatomically modern humans first emerge?…
