How did people live in the Ice Age? Were they Neanderthals? Where did the mammoths go?
In S. Pokrovsky’s remarkable book, prehistoric events appear as a vivid and living picture.
“The leader roared and raged in the pit like a hurricane. With great effort he managed to get to his feet. He trampled the fallen logs. They broke under him like fragile matches. He flung twigs and sand with his trunk and tried to rear up. The enormous arcs of his tusks crashed into the edges of the trap. Hunters were shouting and squealing around him like madmen. The giant was in captivity—but even in captivity he was terrifying!”