Creswell Crags as it might have been 12,000 years ago. It is late winter and the snow is melting. A cold wind whistles over the landscape drifting snow against the limestone cliffs. Trappers on the plateau set a snare. This will be their final winter visit. They return again in the summer to hunt horse. One of the group has lit a fire at the cave. In the distance a herd of mammoth brush snow off the grass to graze. Small stands of birch and willow cling to the thin soil. Snow melt swells the fast flowing stream, the rush of the stream echoing off the cliff sides.

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