A review by bristlecone
Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America by Sarah Gilman, Craig Childs

4.0

3.5 stars. A majority of this book is incredibly engaging and provides a brilliant overview of natural history research on North America during the Pleistocene. I also really appreciate the author's efforts and ability to make it clear that homo sapiens then were not really different from homo sapiens now. If we took an infant from that time and used time travel to bring it to modern time, it would grow up to be a normal kid. The author uses this commonality between prehistoric and modern humans to construct a vivid picture of what life in the Pleistocene may have been like. I could have done without the chapter about walking to burning man, but the rest of the book was excellent.