Good but very biased

This book starts out well with available evidence, but quickly turns into a biased story based on the authors interpretation with little evidence. The authors ignore the genetic evidence that all humans outside Africa, share a common ancestor that can be traced to a single migration. Instead the story tries to promote an idea that separate sapiens spread around the world, and only a single "advanced version" with the skills and organization moved later into Europe ..... is this the beginning of white supremacy. This has no basis on evidence, and uses colonial social concepts transferred to ancient people to explain why Europeans could develop jewellery, farming, artists, education etc. There is also an attempt to link dark skins to southern populations from an earlier (aka less developed) migrations, who did not develop "Hoards with Wolves", which gave them the macho advantage. This goes against all the genetic evidence (single ancestor), cave drawings and tools from Asia, and a total lack of archaeological evidence, except for caves/burial mounds in Northern Europe. The inclusion of organized religion and marriage traditions as part of the Hoards culture is really a stretch.
It quickly becomes a fairy-tale. Filled with stories of human sacrifice, tribal wars etc, It totally ignores the evidence of ancient Chinese and Asian history that gave rise to great artworks, architecture, philosophies, etc. from similar piles of stone tools. It ignores the tremendous number of tribal communities alive today, that do not engage in warfare and cannibalism. Sadly its a useless book for anyone interested in early human development, unless you are looking for a rather biased ethnocentric view.

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