Product Description
How does bison meat taste after being frozen for 30,000 years? Were Ice Age cave painters trying to create "art" or just record history? How did ancient oil spills occur, before oil companies existed? Those are just some of the questions renowned paleontologist Bjorn Kurten answers in these lighthearted essays on fossils, ancient life, and related topics.
About the Author
Bjorn Kurten is known around the world for his research and his writing, both fiction and nonfiction. A Professor of Paleontology at the University of Helsinki since 1955, he is the author of six books which have been translated into more than half a dozen languages. His books available in English include The Age of Mammals, The Cave Bear Story, and the forthcoming On Evolution and Fossil Mammals, all published by Columbia University Press.