Assembles Kurten's seminal papers in one volume, not only making them available once again but at the same time presenting a number of concepts and methodological innovations as they were first conceived.[...]
How does bison meat taste after being frozen for 30,000 years? Were Ice Age cave painters trying to create "art" or just record history? How did ancient oil spills occur, before there were oil companies to create them? Those are just some of the questions renowned paleontologist Bjorn Kurten answers[...]
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Complete with brilliant illustrations, this book conveys the astonishing facts about the largest of bears, including the structure, habits, and society of cave bears, their Ice Age environment, sexual and racial variations, and extinction. Kurtin also details the relationship between man and bear-na[...]
Bjorn Kurten's compelling novel gives the reader a detailed picture of life 35,000 years ago in Western Europe. One of the world's leading scholars of Ice Age fauna, Kurten fuses extraordinary knowledge and imagination in this vivid evocation of our deepest past. This novel illuminates the lives of [...]