BOOK REPORT

After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC

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After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC

Introduction

The book “After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC” was written by Steven Mithen. This book illustrates how human-induced impact caused the greatest environmental disruption, particularly in the European region.

Discussion

Approximately 20,000 years ago, World was in the middle of an ice age. At that time, the notion of global warming emerged, which cause the retreat of the deserts, the spread of forests and massive floods. Around 5,000 BC, completely different world came into view. Gatherers and hunters were replaced by farmers; similarly, transient campsites had vanished and were replaced by towns. The basis of our contemporary world had been founded on nothing but on the Industrial Revolution, the internet and the atomic age - have still harmonized the implication of those proceedings. The author put in the picture the story of environmental change's impact during this earth-shattering period. Sketching on the most recent cutting-edge study in the archaeology, evolutionary sciences, geology, paleontology, and cognitive science; the author creates a remarkably, original and evocative inclusive picture of landscape, lives, cultures and minds through 15,000 years of history (Johanson, 2007).

During 20,000 B.C., the ice age is at its peak refers to the environmental disruption as the atmosphere is very dusty, there were plenty of deserts, glaciers span across regions, as well as the survival of population became almost impossible and they exist in mobile or small groups, as they were exposed to extinction threat. Those who were able to survive, live on the seismic change brink, the climatic change during 10,000 years brought about global warming that changed the world fundamentally.

The rapid change in people's way of living, dieting habits and technology are one of the ...