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4.0 out of 5 stars
An interesting psychological study,
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This review is from: The golden rooms, (Hardcover)
Overlook some of the inaccuracies while reading this psychological study of early man. Two different peoples are described: Harg and his family and Gode and his. Harg's people are evidently meant to be Neanderthals, but are overwrought as hulking, dwarfish, hairy, and brutish beasts. Gode and people, apparently Cro-Magnons, are lithe, swift, and tall giants. Harg's family and way of life are described first, then after a brief interaction the remainder of the book suddenly shifts to Gode's perspective. A lot of cultural advances that probably took millenia if not longer to accomplish are covered in a year or two. Harg discovers how to make fire. Gode almost succeeds in taming a wolf pup. And Gode is described as uttering the first human prayer. But the main interest of this book is not in its overdone physical details, but in the psychological goings-on in these two peoples and what happens when they interact. Fisher has an uncanny ability to draw for us a rather good description of what the thought processes of these people may have been like.
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