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Atlas of a lost world : travels in ice age America Cover Image Book

Atlas of a lost world : travels in ice age America

Childs, Craig 1967- (author.). Gilman, Sarah (illustrator.).

Summary: "From the author of Apocalyptic Planet, an unsparing, vivid, revelatory travelogue through prehistory that traces the arrival of the First People in North America twenty thousand years ago and the artifacts that enable us to imagine their lives and fates. Scientists squabble over the locations and dates for human arrival in the New World. The first explorers were few, encampments fleeting. At some point in time, between twenty and forty thousand years ago, sea levels were low enough that a vast land bridge was exposed between Asia and North America. But the land bridge was not the only way across. This book upends our notions of where these people came from and who they were. The unpeopled continent they reached was inhabited by megafauna--mastodons, sloths, mammoths, saber-toothed cats, lions, bison, and bears. The First People were not docile--Paleolithic spear points are still encrusted with the protein of their prey--but they were wildly outnumbered and many were prey to the much larger animals. This is a chronicle of the last millennia of the Ice Age, the gradual oscillations and retreat of glaciers, the clues and traces that document the first encounters of early humans, and the animals whose presence governed the humans' chances for survival"--

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780307908650
  • ISBN: 0307908658
  • Physical Description: print
    xvi, 269 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, [2018]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-257) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Land bridge: date unknown -- Inner Beringia: 25,000 years ago -- House of ice: 20,000 years ago -- The long coast: 17,000 years ago -- Playground of giants: 45,000 to 15,000 years ago -- Emergence: 16,000 to 14,000 years ago -- A dangerous Eden: 14,500 years ago -- Cult of the fluted point: 13,500 years ago -- The last mammoth hunt: 13,000 to 12,000 years ago -- American Babylon: 12,800 to 11,800 years ago -- The party at the beginning of the world: 11,000 years ago.
Target Audience Note:
1180L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 8.2 17 195297.

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Prehistoric peoples North America
Paleo-Indians North America
Glacial epoch North America
Paleoecology North America Pleistocene
Mammals, Fossil North America

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