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“The power of these books and of Jean Auel’s work is that she took huge amounts of time to research the archaeology, even bush skills: how you survive, what you could eat. She also describes the environment. For some people, she does this in mind-numbing detail; for me, it was incredibly inspirational detail. What does the mammoth steppe look like? What does it smell like? She’ll even talk about the grittiness that’s always in your teeth because there’s a constant wind blowing off the glaciers that contains this stuff we call loess, which is a talcum-fine sediment made up of ground-up rock that glaciers produce. We find this stuff, metres deep, in deposits all over northern Europe. The fact that it’s in your teeth all the time and that level of detail of world building is what made these books particularly powerful for me; but not just me.” Read more...
