Atlas of a Lost World Quotes

“DNA reconstruction from prehistoric C. familiaris remains in America indicates that the animals derived from a common Asian population. They were not domesticated from American wolves. They came with the people.”
― Craig Childs, Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America

“Todd and I carried tents framed with plastic bones and thin metal poles, bug screens and nylon. To Pleistocene travelers accustomed to hides on wood frames and floors dug into the earth, peeled down to permafrost, our tents would have looked as if we were draping ourselves nightly in gossamer. What would have been the use? People have different needs at different times. Our tents kept mosquitoes out. Theirs warded off giant bears and Beringian wolves, a piece of ground to defend, the difference between travelers and inhabitants.”
― Craig Childs, Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America