Long, long ago, large areas of / ' Europe, Asia, and North 7 • •America were covered in ice *1 and snow. The temperature was Mtikis much lower than it is today. In this permanently cold environment, the ice cap from the North Pole spread southward. Today’s countries of Canada, northern United
States, Greenland, Iceland, the British Isles, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and parts of Russia and
Poland were all buried beneath ice up to 1 mile (2 km) thick. This is the ice age — the world of
15,000 years ago. Welcome to life at the edge of this frozen world. You are a hunter following the trail of mammoths as they cross a vast, treeless wilderness. You camp where your people have always sheltered. You leave your mark on the walls of caves. You fight your enemies. You kill mammoths. Life is hard and can be short. If you are brave and strong, you will be successful. If you are not, then you wouldn’t want to be an ice age mammoth hunter!