Nature's short review, 2/4/23: "Most studies of the ice age 40,000–12,000 years ago focus, unexcitingly, on cataloguing tools. In this witty, richly illustrated look at European ice-age life — the first of its kind in English — social psychologist Elle Clifford and archaeologist Paul Bahn try to decipher tool use. Inevitably, swathes are speculative. Fewer than 200 human skeletons and fragments from the time survive; to supplement archaeological evidence, the authors use data from hunter-gatherers and knowledge of basic human behaviour, animals and plants."