1. Athena 2000
The Neanderthal were the first humans to live in Ice Age conditions, surviving by hunting the largest and most formidable Pleistocene mammals--the mammoth, wooly rhinoceros, and wild cattle. ... These artists' reconstructions depict the rugged hunting life of the ice-age Europeans of our species [often called Cro-Magnon after an early discovery site in France]. ... Hunters living near the ice, like those depicted above right, followed the vast caribou or reindeer herds; hunters in Central and Eastern Europe lived a dangerous life hunting the Mammoth. ... Red ochre is being scattered ove...
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