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“The idea that progress is the natural way of things is so deeply ingrained in our consciousness that when we are confronted with clear evidence that, for much of human history, things didn‘t get better and often they got worse, we reject these episodes as aberrations...”

I think this author hasn‘t encountered as many post-apocalyptic novels as I have. 😉

#bookmark by me.

I have gotten far enough along the timeline that all the megafauna are officially extinct. This makes me sad, because I have a thing for megamammals.

But I note that although in the paleoindian period they found a lot of animal bones, and a bazillion flint weapons and tools, they have found “essentially no human remains”. So...

... How do we know that the ones using the tools were actually human?
:: Cue spooky music ::

#ideasgrowontrees

In theory I checked out this book as #research for the story my publisher-cum-husband wants me to write next after the EFP Epic is done. But it will be set in the 1800s... mastodons are not going to be relevant. Naturally I refuse to let that limit my reading. To a writer, all knowledge is potentially useful—at least, that‘s my rationalization and I‘m sticking to it.