Living Worlds
People in sewn furs walking home across a snow-dusted steppe at sunset towards a camp fire, mammoths far off on the plain.

51,200–20,000 years ago · Beringia, about 20,000 years ago

The Long Winter

Nobody winters alone.

The law of The Long Winter

Nobody winters alone.

On the cold grassland between Asia and the Americas, shared with mammoths and bison, the ancestors of the first Americans may have lived for thousands of years before moving on.

An elder in a fur parka at the edge of camp reading the evening sky, a hearth burning behind him.

A life in The Long Winter · composite, based on the record

An elder, seventy

He reads the sky every evening. Tonight it says the herds will come down the valley.

Meanwhile, in the same age

The deep past

A double-hulled voyaging canoe with pandanus sails on the open Pacific at dusk.

Which world will you live in?