The book accompanying the 'Ice Age' exhibition tells the story of the fascinating world of the
Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers of the last Ice Age between around 40 000 and 11 700 years ago.
This time frame is intrinsically connected to modern humans (Homo sapiens) and is illustrated
by several sites around Krems an der Donau (Lower Austria). Different areas of daily life from
birth to death and complex survival strategies of the highly mobile societies are shown in an
exciting and vivid way. Interested readers can look forward to spectacular and internationally
recognised finds and findings such as the baby burials from Krems-Wachtberg the Ice Age
refrigerator from Kammern-Grubgraben or the mammoth remains from a wine cellar in
Gobelsburg-Rossgraben. This volume brings to life times long past and gives an impression of
the intensive archaeological research carried out by the team of the Austrian Archaeological
Institute (OeAI) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW).
