Correcting many false assumptions about ancient man, this short book tries to elevate ancient men and women to a more appropriate status. They were not brutes, proto-humans, or naked apes. They survived a turbulent earth, ice ages, rapid thaws, and the resultant deluges that carved canyons and carried away mammoths and men. Only to have their bones treated as relics, and have museums insult their humanity with dioramas that were hardly more than vulgar theatre. There were our forefathers and deserve better. E.H. Lester writes fiction shaped by lived experience. He served 11 years in the USAF as part of the Strategic Air Command, then worked at Boeing Military Aircraft and later in industry before spending 25 years as a long‑haul trucker. Now retired, he lives in Decatur, Alabama, where he continues to write stories grounded in the people and places that shaped him.
