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Scary Stone Age History Facts
Rituals, Wars, and the Seeds of Civilization (Revised Edition)
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Skriuwer.com Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35540569
EAN: 9783565081271
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Zustellung: Mi, 26.08.2026
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Beschreibung
Picture a world lit by flickering torches, where Neanderthals stacked kin in shallow pits laced with red ochre, their bones whispering of diseases that gnawed tribes hollow before vanishing like smoke. Mammoth hunts weren't glory grabs-they were desperate dashes over ice cracks, spears splintering against hides while blizzards buried the fallen alive. These weren't tall tales; they were the grind of survival, clans carving Venus idols from ivory, begging fertility from gods who answered with floods that drowned valleys and left bog mummies twisted in eternal grimace. Deeper in the haze, rituals turned brutal: shamans slicing palms to paint cave depths with bison blood, invoking spirits that drove dancers into frenzies till hearts burst. Cannibal sites dot Europe's dirt, teeth marks on femurs tallying feasts born of starvation or spite, while megalith tombs trapped souls under stone slabs that groaned in the wind. The Stone Age's shadows stretched long, from Siberian shamans' bear-skull altars to Australian rock art etched with dreamtime demons that stalked the unwary. Yet these terrors seeded us-hand axes honed for horror, fires fending off saber-tooth snarls in the night. This book's your lantern swing through the murk, facts that prick like flint shards, proving the cradle of humanity rocked on a knife's edge sharper than any tool.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Auke de Haan
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 208