Tides of History
Lost Worlds Audiobook Chapter: "The World As It Was"
April 16, 202650 min · 8,633 words
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Patrick's new book Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World comes out May 5th! Check out a free preview of the first chapter of the audiobook, "The World As It Was," and learn about the Clovis people and reindeer hunters in Europe at the end of the last Ice Age. Preorder in hardcopy, ebook, or audiobook (read by Patrick) here:. Patrick has a brand-new history show! It’s called Past Lives, and every episode explores the life of a real person who lived in the past.
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Yet the focus on who came first is a red herring. The pre-Clovis evidence scattered across the Americas is currently impossible to assemble into a coherent narrative of life in the distant past.
“A better name for this region is Beringia, which was less a temporary causeway connecting two continents than a distinct, long-lasting, biogeographical region stretching from Siberia to the Yukon.”
“Far from being throwbacks to a timeless Paleolithic, the last representatives of an ancient predilection for hunting the biggest possible game, the Clovis people seem to have built an entirely new and exceptionally viable way of life.”
“The infant buried in Montana was actually more closely related to later groups living in Central and South America than he was to later people living in North America, even those in the precise vicinity of his burial place.”
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