Circles of stone

Women good, men bad.

I was pleased with this fictional story about how the oldest stone circle was created. The discovery of a hominoid skeleton called Lucy in Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania has fascinated me for decades. The discovery led to a nearby discovery of a stone circle dated at 2,300,000 years BCE. Most people are familiar with pagan stone circles in England and Europe, but not with much older stone circles in Africa created by people who are called hominids rather than humans. Joan Lambert does a commendable job of creating a story of the hominids who lived and died in that epoch. Parts 2 and 3 of Circles of Stone describe early humans much later migrating to what is now Iraq, and then to Europe.

My disappointment with Lambert's show more effort is that she incorporates feminist myths and misandry blaming men for everything that was ever destructive or violent in our human evolution. Lambert perpetuates the feminist myth of a female dominated culture that always lived in peace and love by keeping men ignorant and controlled. Even though she acknowledges in Part 2, that men had to be aggressive to fight other hominid species so our kind could survive, she again reverts to the feminist myths thereafter. She also continues the silly feminist myth that human ancestors never knew how women get pregnant until very recently. The need to breed is so powerful that virtually all species, including human ancestors, knows how to breed. This myth is incorporated into plot elements that blame men for destroying the “peace and love” female dominated society when the truth is finally learned in Part 3.

Lambert's novel is an interesting read even with the feminist misandry though. The characters are mostly believable, and their struggles during environmental changes are well thought out. show less

Women good, men bad.

I was pleased with this fictional story about how the oldest stone circle was created. The discovery of a hominoid skeleton called Lucy in Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania has fascinated me for decades. The discovery led to a nearby discovery of a stone circle dated at 2,300,000 years BCE. Most people are familiar with pagan stone circles in England and Europe, but not with much older stone circles in Africa created by people who are called hominids rather than humans. Joan Lambert does a commendable job of creating a story of the hominids who lived and died in that epoch. Parts 2 and 3 of Circles of Stone describe early humans much later migrating to what is now Iraq, and then to Europe.

My disappointment with Lambert's show more effort is that she incorporates feminist myths and misandry blaming men for everything that was ever destructive or violent in our human evolution. Lambert perpetuates the feminist myth of a female dominated culture that always lived in peace and love by keeping men ignorant and controlled. Even though she acknowledges in Part 2, that men had to be aggressive to fight other hominid species so our kind could survive, she again reverts to the feminist myths thereafter. She also continues the silly feminist myth that human ancestors never knew how women get pregnant until very recently. The need to breed is so powerful that virtually all species, including human ancestors, knows how to breed. This myth is incorporated into plot elements that blame men for destroying the “peace and love” female dominated society when the truth is finally learned in Part 3.

Lambert's novel is an interesting read even with the feminist misandry though. The characters are mostly believable, and their struggles during environmental changes are well thought out. show less

Women good, men bad.

I was pleased with this fictional story about how the oldest stone circle was created. The discovery of a hominoid skeleton called Lucy in Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania has fascinated me for decades. The discovery led to a nearby discovery of a stone circle dated at 2,300,000 years BCE. Most people are familiar with pagan stone circles in England and Europe, but not with much older stone circles in Africa created by people who are called hominids rather than humans. Joan Lambert does a commendable job of creating a story of the hominids who lived and died in that epoch. Parts 2 and 3 of Circles of Stone describe early humans much later migrating to what is now Iraq, and then to Europe.

My disappointment with Lambert's show more effort is that she incorporates feminist myths and misandry blaming men for everything that was ever destructive or violent in our human evolution. Lambert perpetuates the feminist myth of a female dominated culture that always lived in peace and love by keeping men ignorant and controlled. Even though she acknowledges in Part 2, that men had to be aggressive to fight other hominid species so our kind could survive, she again reverts to the feminist myths thereafter. She also continues the silly feminist myth that human ancestors never knew how women get pregnant until very recently. The need to breed is so powerful that virtually all species, including human ancestors, knows how to breed. This myth is incorporated into plot elements that blame men for destroying the “peace and love” female dominated society when the truth is finally learned in Part 3.

Lambert's novel is an interesting read even with the feminist misandry though. The characters are mostly believable, and their struggles during environmental changes are well thought out. show less

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