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Neanderthal
Truly Human
Edward F. Wagner
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Summary
Struggling to survive in an ever-increasing hostile environment. Hemmed into smaller and smaller enclaves of habitable land they fight the elements and the beasts of the land. Some find the courage and stamina to persevere while others succumb to the rigors and hardships. Generations are born, live and die as the battle for existence continues unabated. Whole clans are annihilated when they are trapped in inescapable valleys as the long cold winter catches them unprepared. Bands starve to death when their food supplies dwindle and then even the final scraps are consumed before the hunters can venture forth seeking fresh game.
This novel illustrates in graphic detail their terror filled encounters with the beasts that inhabited those lands. It chronicles their every day fight for survival as they are forced to abandon traditional and historic ways of living and hunting that had been used by their people for perhaps three or four centuries or even longer. However, even in those perilous circumstances they find time for passionate moments of sex and tender caring of their infants and elderly.
The last Ice Age found both the resident Neanderthal population of Europe and the encroaching of Homo Sapiens (so called Cro-Magnon) engaged in a life or death struggle. This book is based on some of the latest finds and startling revelations coming from Eastern Europe and the Iberian Peninsula concerning the Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon peoples of that period.
About the Author
Ed Wagner is a native of the Upstate New York region commonly referred to as The Capital District. He and his family can trace their roots in the Niskayuna, Eagle Mills, Albany, Schenectady, Troy, Amsterdam and Saratoga, New York area plus Bennington and Rutland Vermont for more than 200 years. His ancestors served their country in the Civil War and most of the major wars fought since then.
He has been an avid outdoorsman for years and has many trophy whitetail bucks to his credit. His prized 16-point buck was taken in the region of Keene Valley in Essex County NY. Many of the tracking secrets and hunting lore written in the books are from his own personal experiences and knowledge of hunting, tracking and survival.
Ed is keenly interested in the study of early man and spends most of his evenings researcing the newest and most startling revelations concerning early migrations and life styles of our far distant ancestors.
While the books are fiction, since no one knows exactly how people lived 25,000 to 55,000 years ago. the underlying facts upon which the various story lines are based is factual and well documented by numerous scientific finds and papers.
