Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America

Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America

by Craig Childs
Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America

Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America

by Craig Childs

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Overview

The first people in the New World were few, their encampments fleeting. On a side of the planet no human had ever seen, different groups arrived from different directions, and not all at the same time. The land they reached was fully inhabited by megafauna—mastodons, giant bears, mammoths, saber-toothed cats, enormous bison, and sloths that stood one story tall. These Ice Age explorers, hunters, and families were wildly outnumbered and many would themselves have been prey to the much larger animals.
 
In Atlas of a Lost World, Craig Childs blends science and personal narrative to upend our notions of where these people came from and who they were. How they got here, persevered, and ultimately thrived is a story that resonates from the Pleistocene to our modern era, and reveals how much has changed since the time of mammoth hunters, and how little. Through it, readers will see the Ice Age, and their own age, in a whole new light.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780345806314
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 04/09/2019
Pages: 288
Sales rank: 214,242
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 7.80(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

CRAIG CHILDS is the author of Apocalyptic Planet. He has been a regular commentator for NPR's Morning Edition, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Men's Journal, Outside, The Sun, and Orion Magazine. Awards he has received include the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award, the Rowell Award for the Art of Adventure, the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award, and, for his body of work, the 2003 Spirit of the West Award.

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Table of Contents

Prologue xi

1. Land Bridge: Date Unknown 3
2. Inner Beringia: 25,000 Years Ago 15
3. House of Ice: 20,000 Years Ago 33
4. The Long Coast: 17,000 Years Ago 62
5. Playground of Giants: 45,000 to 15,000 Years Ago 101
6. Emergence: 16,000 to 14,000 Years Ago 112
7. A Dangerous Eden: 14,500 Years Ago 127
8. Cult of the Fluted Point: 13,500 Years Ago 166
9. The Last Mammoth Hunt: 13,000 to 12,000 Years Ago 176
10. American Babylon: 12,800 to 11,800 Years Ago 205
11. The Party at the Beginning of the World: 11,000 Years Ago 214

Epilogue 234
Acknowledgments 239
Notes 241
Selected Bibliography 245
Index 259

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