Hunt mammoths

Author: Malan Kongchan
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: You wouldn’t want to be a mammoth hunter: Keeping warm, finding food, and seeking shelter in the Ice Age wasn’t an easy task. You’d have to prepare for a tough journey to hunt for prey, and that’s just the easy part. Next, you’d have to catch a mammoth. It was far too dangerous! Expert Tip: Use mammoth bones to build a sturdy frame for your house. Learn how to make fire. Fire can keep you warm and be used to cook food. Follow the tracks of the mammoth herds. You absolutely won’t miss them! By heating the tip of your spear in the fire—mammoth hide was incredibly thick! Long, long ago, large parts of Europe, Asia, and North America were covered in ice and snow. The temperatures at that time were much lower than today. In this persistent cold environment, ice caps extended south from the Arctic. Today, areas including Canada, northern United States, Greenland, Iceland, the British Isles, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, as well as parts of Russia and Poland are buried under ice layers up to 2 kilometers thick. This is the Ice Age—world of 15,000 years ago. Welcome to the edge of this frozen world. You are a mammoth hunter, chasing their footsteps across vast, desolate wilderness. You set up camp at the usual site chosen by your tribe. You mark the cave walls. You fight your enemies. You must kill the mammoths. Life was hard and short. If you were brave and strong, you might succeed. Otherwise, you wouldn’t want to be a mammoth hunter in the Ice Age!