As Watson moves into territory with which I am more familiar, he asks interesting questions and posits interesting answers. Despite that, I found these chapters well-written and fairly interesting. The early chapters I found a little tedious, perhaps because I am no anthropologist or archaeologist and consequently have little interest in pre-historical humanity. Watson introduces a lot of information with which I am not really familiar, and he does this engagingly. He gathers a lot of interesting facts together, which is fair enough, but then he generalises ad infinitum – leading to a reduction ad absurdum, to be frank.Let me start with a few positive aspects of the book. But what disappointed me in the end was not so much the content of the book, objectionable as some of it is to me, as the style in which Watson writes. Maybe both these responses are twined around each other, as Watson obviously wrote the book to elicit a strong response. On the other hand, I found myself vociferously disagreeing with a lot of Watson’s surmises. On the one hand, I was deeply stimulated and intrigued by most of the information and in the book.
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