"Before Adam" Topic
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nnascati  | 11 May 2023 4:42 p.m. PST |
Sounds like an interesting book, I looked it up. |
| rvandusen | 11 May 2023 5:59 p.m. PST |
It is interesting. It concerns hominids trying to survive during the mid-Pleistocene. I pointed out in my failed post that it was written in 1906-1907. Java Man had been discovered only a few years prior. |
| nnascati | 11 May 2023 6:14 p.m. PST |
It was on kindle for $.99 USD, so I got it. |
| rvandusen | 11 May 2023 7:44 p.m. PST |
I hope you enjoy the tale of Big-tooth, Lop-Ear, and their nemesis Red-Eye. |
| nnascati | 13 May 2023 12:56 p.m. PST |
I'm eight chapters in, but found a bothersome error. If this is set in the middle Pleistocene, no one would have aboard arrow, nor I think would any hominid be wearing skins. |
| rvandusen | 13 May 2023 1:22 p.m. PST |
I noticed that too. If these hominids were H. erectus, then the "fire people" would be very early H. sapiens sapiens> The bow and arrow would not be invented for about 1 to 2 million years! I just take it as an artifact of its time. Today we have more than a century of anthropology as our guide. |
| rvandusen | 13 May 2023 1:31 p.m. PST |
I have read that bows do not appear until the end of the Paleolithic, and spread throughout the Mesolithic until composite bows appear in the Bronze Age. |
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ponders nirvana.