Ice and Spears - Tom Norton - Bog

This book and its story was written for people with an interest in prehistoric times or wonder at the nature of the landscape around them. In fact, almost all of the landscape around us is the product of prehistoric times. Prehistoric because there were no humans to document the changes made to the Earth's surface or if there were people present, they did not have the ability to document it. This is a prehistoric people story, therefore it is an educated assumption at what people encountered during a period of time when the landscape was changing and there were people there to watch it. The geologic history that changed the surface of the Earth were numerous events and took place as long as four billion years ago, but the event in this story takes place in a mere flash of time when men and women more like us than we feel comfortable with, were living in North America. A landscape changing event happened in that flash of time that for the most part goes unrecognized and for the most part is of little interest to most people in America. Of course where one lives in America may heighten the interest of some if the present landscape is explained to them. Those Americans who live where the continental ice sheet was during the last ice age or near where it was, look at the results of these ice sheets every day whether they recognize them or not. This story takes place in an area of North America where the results of the ice age are dramatic and the surface of the earth was changed that would take the force of thousands of nuclear weapons to accomplish the same thing. Even with all of the Earth's dramatic altered characteristics that are present, to the average person these have to be pointed out and explained. Then the instructor has to convince his students that this was even possible. It is one of those things people can't get their head around. For those of interest, there are knowledgeable people who have tours showing people the results of the ice age and ice dams that broke and inundated and altering hundreds of square miles and unbelievably cut through hundreds of feet of solid rock for miles. My story simply ponders the question about any people that were present to witness these events.