The Complete Ice Age: How Climate Change Shaped the World | 
| Creator: Brian M. Fagan
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st edition,
Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 7.9 x 1.1
ISBN: 0500051615
Dewey Decimal Number: 909
EAN: 9780500051610
ASIN: 0500051615
Publication Date: October 19, 2009
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Product Description
A detailed look at this critical period in Earth's history, from two million years ago to c. 10,000 BC, beautifully illustrated with photographs, diagrams, and reconstruction scenes. Written by three distinguished experts and overseen by a leading historian of climate change, Brian Fagan, The Complete Ice Age reveals how climate fluctuated wildly between severe glacial periods and warmer intervals, how long-extinct creatures once roamed the harsh landscapes, and how archaic and then modern humans adapted as they spread from tropical Africa and colonized the world.
This book covers a critical period in Earth’s—and humanity’s—history, from two million years ago to the present day. We travel with Neanderthal and more recent Ice Age hunters and encounter saber-toothed tigers and the giant woolly mammoth. We learn how new scientific enquiries, from DNA evidence to the study of human bones, are revealing the adaptability and evolution of the human species.
And what of the future? We tend to forget that we are currently enjoying a warmer interglacial respite that began just 12,000 years ago. If past climatic change is any guide, the Ice Age should return within, geologically, a relatively short time. But will it, or will human profligacy cause catastrophic global warming?
With contributions by John F. Hoffecker (University of Colorado), Mark Maslin (University College London), and Hannah O’Regan (Liverpool John Moores University). 225 color, 25 b&w illustrations
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Ice Ages and Global Warming tied together, making sense December 16, 2009
Michael A. Starsheen (Dunsmuir, CA USA)
26 out of 26 found this review helpful
The Complete Ice Age: How Climate Change Shaped the World is an anthology of articles on the latest theories of how the Ice Ages began, ran their course, and warmed into interglacials, such as our current one. Brian Fagan, the editor, has written a number of very accessible books that combines the detailed paleoclimate data scientists have brought out of the study of global warming, and expertly combines them with archaeological data to show climate's influence on what happened. Here, he draws in specialist colleagues to look at different aspects of how the last Ice Age took shape, ended, and affected the growth of humankind into our modern forms.
The book concludes with a look at the potential effects of global warming, and how it fits into the natural cycle of Ice Ages and interglacials that have been the norm for several million years now. The book is thus a look back, using the latest and best knowledge we have, and the use of that knowledge to look forward, at a potential future. I would recommend it equally to those interested in archaeology and in global warming.
The book is lavishly illustrated with color photographs and drawings that help the reader follow along with the discussions at hand. It is a great read.
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