![]() ![]() ![]() They drink from an animal skin, move on the river in hollow logs and, although wise and clever, treat each other and the two captured children with savage cruelty. These strange bony, upright creatures have peculiar protuberances over their eyes and removable fur about their middles. When Great Oa, the maternal deity, takes four adults back into her belly, only Lok, a man of many words but few pictures (thoughts), and Fa, a woman blessed with humble commonsense, are left to shelter two children from the sudden presence of Other-the New People. Eight of the early people remained to continue their well-ordered, simple, and serene existence. Here in a novel about the last survivors of Neanderthal man, the expert author of Lord of the Flies advances these limits to probe prehistory and the nearest ancestors of Homo Sapiens. ![]() In his concern with immediate present and imminent future, man's memory has traditional limits. ![]()
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