A balanced account of the period 12,500-5,500 years agoj written by a middle-aged, middle-class academic with interests in bird watching and astronomy " Dr Smith discusses the environmental frameworks and the key sites in an accessible and attractively presented way. The result moves the late palaeolithic and mesolithic away from just the study of stone tools and towards the interaction of foraging peoples with their landscape. A landscape which as Chris Smith shows experienced continuous and major changes that make the Greenhouse Effect appear insignificant. A useful introduction to early...