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Nature 425, 453 (2 October 2003) | doi:10.1038/425453a
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A magical history tour
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BOOK REVIEWED-After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000–5000 BC
by Steven Mithen
Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 2003. 622 pp. £25
When the Pleistocene epoch gave way to the Holocene some 12,000 years ago, there was profound and rapid environmental and cultural change: the climate warmed, immense glaciers melted, rising oceans flooded ancient coasts, and an ice-age bestiary of lions, tigers, and elephants vanished. Humans around the globe were quick to exploit the opportunities created by this natural tumult and the vastly more productive environment that emerged in its wake.
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