How to Survive the Ice Age
The Ancients
History Hit
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
When you think of the 'Ice Age', tales of saber-toothed predators and hulking megafauna probably come to mind - but what else do we know about prehistoric culture that lived 25,000 years ago, and how did they live? From hunting Woolly Mammoths, to thriving in freezing temperatures - what did it take to survive the Ice Age?
In this episode Tristan welcomes author Cody Cassidy to the podcast to look at what it took to live through the Ice Age, and how one particular culture in Eastern Europe - the Pavlovian Culture - adapted to the extremes. Looking at the changing landscape, the cause of the big freeze, and how to take down a Woolly Mammoth - do you have what it takes to survive the Ice Age?
You can get Cody's book here.
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever wondered what sorts of treasures were discovered in Tutankhamin's tomb, |
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| 0:09.3 | or even where the Alexander the Great died of a hangover? |
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| 0:42.0 | It's the ancients on History Hit. I'm Tristan Hughes your host, |
| 0:46.7 | and in today's episode, well, how to survive in the ice age. This is a really fun little |
| 0:53.6 | episode. We're not going to be covering the whole of the ice age that would be mad, |
| 0:58.0 | but we are focusing in on an extraordinary prehistoric culture that lived some 25,000 years ago, |
| 1:05.0 | and had to survive in a terrible climate eating a diet almost exclusively, we believe, |
| 1:11.3 | of mammoth. So how did they do this? How were they able to survive? Well, |
| 1:17.6 | today's guest is the author, Cody Cassidy. Now Cody, he's big on TikTok and he's also released |
| 1:25.2 | this new book, which explores how people were able to survive in very difficult conditions |
| 1:32.8 | all throughout history and prehistory. For instance, there's another chapter exploring how you could |
| 1:37.6 | have survived the eruption of Mount Vesuvius if you were in Pompeii in 179 AGT. Hint there, |
| 1:45.9 | get out early, but I digress. Cody's hits date talk all about surviving in the ice age, |
| 1:51.8 | and I really do hope you enjoy. |
| 1:54.0 | Cody, it is a pleasure to have you on the podcast today, buddy. Thank you so much for having me. |
| 2:09.4 | You've written this guide to surviving through these various terrifying events in history. It must |
| 2:13.9 | have been quite a fun experience writing this going from the ice age that we're talking about |
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