Preface

Land of the Elephants
Salvaging a lost world
A temperate biotope in the ice age
The giants of Neumark-Nord
Evidence for the reconstruction
Natural environment
Fruits of knowledge
Oak steppe forest
Thornbushes
Marsh and water
Pioneer plant zones
Meadow steppe
The past in the present
Trees 1
Trees 2
Humans in the Land of the Elephants
Human evolution
Signs of activity
The uses of elephant bones
Dinnertime
Fire at the lake
A key to survival
Big game hunting
necessity, initiation, vanity?
The main residence
Origin of the elephant
Phiomia and Palaeomastodon
Gomphotherium
Tetralophodon
Elephas recki and Elephas falconeri
Mammoth
Elephant Anatomy
Traces of life
expressions of life
The animal environment
When Europe’s large mammals disappeared
Were humans the key factor?
Was climate the key factor? Was it a combination of factors?

Literature