When, where, and why did humans first begin to count?

The Upper Ice Age (40,000–10,000 BC) constitutes a major chapter in human history, but it's an epoch that has left us with little physical evidence. Ice Age people had a sophisticated knowledge of nature, astronomy, geometry and aesthetics—one that lives on to this day through our fairytales, holidays and culture, despite millennia of repression by the agrarian and cosmopolitan cultures that followed it. In Robin Hood's Barn, Arthur Hill Corwin lays out the evidence of an advanced global Ice Age culture with a shared worldview and a shared language. And he shows how we unknowingly encounter with the remains of that culture in our daily lives, in well-known cultural mainstays like unicorns, Robin Hood, Arthur and Guinevere, the eight tiny reindeer and Snow White—and beyond.