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nnascati Supporting Member of TMP11 May 2023 4:42 p.m. PST

Sounds like an interesting book, I looked it up.

rvandusen Supporting Member of TMP11 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 Supporting Member of TMP11 May 2023 6:14 p.m. PST

It was on kindle for $.99 USD, so I got it.

rvandusen Supporting Member of TMP11 May 2023 7:44 p.m. PST

I hope you enjoy the tale of Big-tooth, Lop-Ear, and their nemesis Red-Eye.

nnascati Supporting Member of TMP13 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 Supporting Member of TMP13 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 Supporting Member of TMP13 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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