Everyday Life in the Ice Age : : A New Study of Our Ancestors.

• Author: Clifford, Elle.
• TeilnehmendeR: Bahn, Paul.
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Archaeopress,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (307 pages)

This is the first attempt to present a truly complete, balanced and realistic picture of life during the last Ice Age, while dispelling many of the myths and inaccuracies about our early ancestors. This highly illustrated and accessible book is aimed not only at students and specialists, but also and especially the interested public.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Don Johanson -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- CHRONOLOGY -- Chapter 1 Introducing the People: Appearance, Abilities and Disabilities -- The Lapedo child -- La Marche -- Female figurines -- Cap Blanc -- Tracks and traces -- The division of labour - did women hunt? -- Genders - rigid or fluid? -- Feeding the ice age family -- Dietary requirements -- Sunghir -- Fitness and violence -- Cro-Magnon -- Vitamin D -- The Romito dwarf -- Teeth, mouth and gum infections -- Diseases and infections -- The Arcy parasite -- Waste matter and sanitation -- Immunity and treatments -- Burials -- The Dolní Vestonice trio -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Setting the Scene: Ice Age Environments and Home Comforts -- The changing climate -- Flora and fauna -- Who would live in a place like this? -- Use of deep caves -- Cave comforts -- Carry on camping -- Building with mammoths -- Fire -- Have you got a light? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Our Crafty Ancestors -- Toolmaking -- The flint stones -- Mastic -- Feats of clay -- Using hard bits of animals -- Woodwork -- Innovations with fibres and plants -- Animal skins and clothing -- Containers: cache and carry! -- Carrying Children -- Head coverings -- The La Madeleine burial: the child of an elite family? -- Best foot forward -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 How to Make a Living: Survival and Subsistence -- Hunting -vs - gathering -- The ivory boomerang -- Solutré -- Hunting for clues to hunting -- Horses -- Animal control -- Reining in the reindeer -- Red deer -- The ibex -- The mammoth -- Carnivores and small game -- Embarking on a relationship with dogs -- How and why were wolves domesticated? -- Plucky bird hunters -- Fishing on a small scale -- Atlantic salmon runs -- Plant foods -- A camp of fisher-hunter-gatherers -- Modern gatherers.

Ice age food processors -- The original boil-in-a-bag meal -- Palaeolithic recipes -- Eggs with mushrooms -- Chapter 5 Ice Age People:From Womb to Tomb -- Reproduction -- From here to maternity -- The obstetric dilemma -- The Abri Pataud -- The Ostuni burial of a woman and her infant -- The child burials at the Grotte des Enfants -- The perinatal skeleton from Wilczyce, Poland -- Identical twins at Krems-Wachtberg, Austria -- Home delivery service -- After birth -- Sharing the caring -- Postmenopausal women and the grandmother hypothesis -- Family size and birth intervals -- First foods for ice age infants -- Methods of carrying and transporting infants -- Weaning -- Who's your daddy? Paternity and avoiding incest -- Who stays and who goes? -- Is there any evidence of infanticide? -- Growing up -- Cavorting in caves: thrills but no spills -- Female figurines -- An enduring myth: the 'Lion Man' -- Kids in caves - making a good impression -- Death in the ice age - good grief! -- The young Italian Prince -- Chapter 6 Keeping in Touch:Communication, Social Life and Organization -- Getting together -- Ice age bling -- Language -- Therianthropes -- Thanks for the memory -- Telling the time -- Drama in caves -- Having a laugh? -- Musical moments -- Images on the rocks -- What evidence is there for religion? -- JFK -- The 'Rites of Springs' -- Conclusion -- Case Study El Mirón and Covalanas -- The Red Lady -- The secret sanctuary -- Appendix The Fake 'Venus' of Abri Pataud -- References -- Figure credits -- Index -- Back cover.