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No one understood the Vision, least of all Lishi, who dreamed the terror of two wolves. But on the morning of the Great Mammoth Hunt, two real, flesh-and-blood wolves crossed Lishi's path, snarling at her with deadly intent. It was no dream. This meeting with vicious fanged creatures began a chain of events that would change Lishi's life, and all of Neandertal culture, setting a new course for humankind.
Fire Wolf is the story of humanity's greatest achievement, the single act that led to agriculture, the first cities, the first words chiseled into stone. Fire Wolf offers a compelling picture of the way life must have been for the first humans, living every day at the precarious edge between survival and extinction. This is a living, breathing novel, pulsing with conflict between rival factions within Neandertal society, with clashing dreams and fears and destinies, and all of it playing out against the looming threat of the invading Others The Bear People, whom the Tasfit call the 'Half-Faced Men'--the people we know as Homo sapiens sapiens Modern Humans.
Based on the latest research in human evolution, including thousands of primary, peer-reviewed articles in the major archeology, paleontology, and paleoanthropology journals, with guidance and input from world leaders in the study of early Human and Neandertal culture, Fire Wolf brings the Neandertal world to life in vivid scenes of hunting and death, violence and defeat, wonder and excitement, destiny and dream. You will find yourself shocked at the complexity of social interaction. You will succumb to cherished characters' hopes and desires, you will feel sadness as innocents suffer desolation and loss.
This is a story you will never forget, for it is our story, the first story, the tale of our true selves as living, breathing, desiring, hope-filled human beings. Bring the wolves!
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Novel of Mousterian Neanderthal times. Somewhere in E Europe, the small tribes of Neanderthals live by hunting. Young Lishi becomes a woman and a prophet in one clan; in another, the young hunter Girrt becomes a leader, but his forbidden love for a sister and his arrogance set up destructive forces. Lishi emerges as the focal heroine. Her obscure visions and force of character make her a “prophet†in spite of youth and inexperience. Toward the end of the story, Lishi encounters the “Half-Faced People†the dark skinned, browless modern Homo sapiens, setting up a plot for the next book in a planned long series.
Moore is a better-than-average writer with a definite and imaginative vision of his Neanderthals, backed by extensive research. There is a lengthy illustrated post-script where Moore explains the “Anthropology of Fire Wolf,†with a bibliography of scholarly publications. Moore’s imaginative reconstruction of Neanderthal life is interesting and generally well done, though many, including myself, will disagree with parts of it. For one thing, the Neanderthals are culturally and personally quite complex. There is some artifactual evidence to suggest more intellectual and symbolic life than past anthropology credited them with, but perhaps not as much as in this story. Moore makes the point (somewhat aggressively at times) that Neanderthals had short life spans with rapid development, social adulthood and physical and sexual maturity at 10 or 12 years of age for instance. This is hard to reconcile with an elaborate social culture of rituals and oral literature that must be learned. Of course Neanderthals with more modern minds make more interesting characters in fiction. Beyond specific quibbles, Moore does what the more sophisticated prehistoric fictions should do, working out archaeological problems in a way that both conforms to the evidence, and makes a good story.
Moore himself has an elaborate mind. His Neanderthals live in a social world of rigidly constructed status and positions chief hunter, fire tender, stone worker, and the like. Position around the fire is important, as is number symbolism. Seven (often euphemized as “six and oneâ€) is a taboo number – there can never be 7 around a fire, or in a band, because there are 6 defined positions around a fire. This creates problems for characters in the story, for instance a mother about to give birth to a child who would be the 7th member of a small clan, or the wolves interacting with Lishi, which have 7 pups, “Seven wolves!†being a most severe curse. Moore has also constructed a Neanderthal language and uses his vocabulary constantly. This is sometimes annoying when it slows the reader who is trying to figure out what is going on, or is obsessively used for chapter numbers and so on. At other times the words ‘work’ and stick in your mind – I will never be able to look at a Levallois flake again without remembering that he calls them ‘benegot’ and makes them the most important physical and symbolic technology for his folk. He perhaps exaggerates the difficulty of making them, and their prehistoric importance, but in ways useful for his story, here setting up the symbolic and social specialization of the Stone Master. There is a lengthy glossary at the end of the book.
Moore’s Neanderthals also have an extensive culture of oral poetry. They quote it a lot in the story, and he provides more complete “Trogmath Tasfit Songs of the Tasfit People†at the end. This kind of thing worked for Tolkien, though even he got tiresome at times. Moore is not quite as good a poet, and I would have dialed the poetry back quite a bit.
Overall, I enjoyed the novel. It took a while to get into Moore’s elaborate world, keeping track of multiple story lines and many characters, with made-up vocabulary to boot, but ultimately I found them compelling enough to remember. Perhaps those brought up on Lost and Myst and other deeply elaborated fictional worlds will be more quickly at home.
Fire Wolf is set in Pre-historic times, and follows various Neanderthal clans in their struggles to survive against nature, and sometimes against each other. The first thing that draws me into a book is characters that I believe in and that move me, whether it’s to love them or hate them. Despite the millennia which separate the characters in Fire Wolf from our present-day reality, I had no trouble empathizing with them, understanding their moods and desires, what makes them happy or sad, and what they need to survive or to thrive. It didn’t take long for what is essentially strange and exotic to feel commonplace to me, and I ended up caring very much about the fates of several people.
There is Lishi, the young woman whose dreams of wolves may alter the fate of her clan; Giirt, the brave but foolhardy hunter who butts heads with just about everybody he meets; Menashi, the wise Seer who has to guide her clan in perilous times, and many others, all of whom quickly become familiar friends that I would visit with when I picked up the book.
When I began to read Fire Wolf I wasn’t sure what I was getting into. My biggest concern was that I’d get lost in a lot of Neanderthal vocabulary, or that the story would get bogged down in descriptions of obscure rituals or belief systems. But the story is so well-told, and the characters so realistic and well-rounded, that the meanings of the occasional word or expression became quickly obvious from the context of the scene, and I rarely had to turn to the generous glossary that is found at the end of the book. There are also several appendices, some containing ritual poems or songs, as well as a quite a bit of the history and scientific background for the events in the story.
Most importantly to me as a reader, Fire Wolf is a very entertaining book, full of personal drama, political intrigue and well-described action scenes (the mammoth hunt was particularly exciting). But it is also thoroughly researched, providing the reader with a richly-detailed world, with its own mythology, human relations and politics. The poems, songs and rituals all give a deep reality to the story, so that sometimes I felt like I was reading a history book, but without it ever being dry or a slog to read.
And I suppose that this is the biggest compliment that I can give author Pearson Moore he has managed to be highly entertaining without ever dumbing down the story, while adding to the little knowledge I had about this mysterious period in human history. Fire Wolf is a book that’s sure to appeal to all readers.
A little hard to follow with having to learn strange words . But very interesting and different look at early man .
Fire Wolf is a fascinating study of Neanderthal mankind told through the stories of the clans of that time of our history. We are introduced to many characters, but a few standout and lead the story forward. Lishi is the young Seer who has a connection to wolves and has special visions that will lead her to her and her clan's destiny with the Flatheads (homo sapiens sapiens) . Along this path she is thwarted by her antagonist, Girrt, illustrating how mankind always has some that hunger for power and cannot accept learning how things can be done better. The reader is immersed in the culture and rituals of the Neanderthal clans and it is quite an interesting journey. I enjoyed the book very much and can't wait to read the next book of this saga.
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