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“Paléo Kids, the childhood of humanity” by Pedro Lima – Synops Editions (publication date: Thursday December 12, 2024).
Synops Editions
Who were the children of the Upper Paleolithic, those who lived during the last ice age in Europe? What were they playing? What was their place in human groups? How did they cope with the dangers that awaited them? How did they learn the gestures essential to their survival?
Today, science provides answers to these long-ignored questions. Through a living story based on current research, we journey alongside the children of the Ice Age, between -37,000 and -12,000 years ago, from Chauvet to Lascaux. We share their joys, their laughter, but also their fears in the face of formidable carnivorous predators. We discover their role in gathering resources, hunting, fishing and preparing meals. We learn with them to make tools and objects of art and adornment. We follow them underground, in caves where they performed mysterious gestures. Decorated caves which will be discovered, millennia later, by other curious and courageous children.
A story of humanity and transmission told to children, among their loved ones and their parents, which connects us to our own origins.
This highly illustrated general public work restores children’s place in the hunter-gatherer societies that lived during the last ice age. To do so, it is based on the most recent research.
Author Pedro Lima
Synops Editions
Pedro Lima is a science journalist and author, specialist in prehistory and cave art. He is passionate about Upper Paleolithic human societies and their ways of life. During his works and reports, he visited numerous decorated caves, such as Lascaux and Chauvet. His work “The Cosquer cave revealed”, published by Éditions Synops, won the grand prize for Book of Archeology in 2022.
The illustrator Marina Lezcano
mlezcano.com
Marina Lezcano is an artist and illustrator specializing in the reconstruction of the distant past. Fascinated by natural sciences and history, she specialized in scientific illustration and regularly collaborates with paleontologists and archaeologists.
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