This made nothing paleolithic.
921941
I was all excited to use my stone tools and trade in my chevy malibu for a rideable dinosaur, but there was not a lot of advice on that. Instead, there was advice on everything from what types of modern equipment to have, and references to the basis for this nutritional cooking paradigm. The recipes are not found on cave walls, but on paper, using ink, with vibrant photos and illustrations that I could never do on my own cave wall. Instead, there are ways to present the foods that you prepare, and entertaining tips. I had also lined up a number of small squirrels and fellow people to prepare and eat as meals, but there were no corresponding recipes for dead squirrels and fellow humans. Instead, tons of recipes from the basic to the exotic were in the book- with no mention of clubbing them with large blunt primitive weapons like I was hoping for. This should be called "make it postmodern and healthy" instead- I mean paleolithic people didn't even speak english, let alone could they read it.
1357713
This is an example of the most God-awful types of "history books"--the kind we hated during school. It feels like this woman wrote the book in order to impress her fellow professors, those who know in detail the dizzying, astoundingly-boring names of tribes, areas of Mongolia in the distant past.

She doesn't bother to explain the places in relation to anything now, nor the tribes in relation to anything--and just goes on and on and on with name after name. Here is an example of what I mean in the first paragraph of the first chapter:

"The first known Eurasian route is that of the northern steppes. By this trail, in paleolithic times, the Aurignacian culture spread through Siberia--an "Aurignacian Venus" has been found at Malta, not far from Irkutsk, on the upper Angara River--and thence into northern China, where Teilhard de Chardin notes the presence of Aurignacian-type hearths buried in the loess at Kweitung, near Ningsia in Kasue, and at the Siara-osso-gol, southwest of Yulin in the northern region of Shensi. Similarly, the Magdalenian culture seems to be represented in Siberia (on the upper Yenisei) and in Manchuria (at Dolonnor [Tolun], Manchouli, and Khailar), and in Hopei. Here in the upper cave of Chowkowtien...." ad nauseum.

No discussion of what "Aurignacian" culture IS. No map reference (i.e. See Figure 1). Even in terms of a dissertation or thesis, this is awful.

Especially when I compare this with Jack Weatherford's wonderful book Genghis Khan, which gives a brilliant overview and understanding of the impact of Genghis Khan, which has been distorted throughout history.

I developed a fascination for Mongolian history lately, but this book--does nothing to scratch that itch. And after 50 pages, I could see no redeeming value in the book or reason why I should plow through 539 pages of this muck.

Even educational works should be interesting.
1705865
I'm sorry, but this movie sucked.  I know or care nothing about history so believe me when I say that it is still a lousy movie whether it is accurate or not.  The action sucked, the love story sucked, the casting sucked, the plot sucked, the wonderful pinball wooly mammoths sucked.  The only cool thing in the whole movie was the big meat eating birds.  It seemed like the plot had too much it was trying to do and it just didn't really get anything done.  Kind of like they just tried to take the best parts of a ton of different movies and still botched the whole thing.
851636
If you're looking for a scary bigfoot movie this isn't it. If you're looking for a found footage film about bigfoot well this isn't it either. Its a boring melodramatic love story between a man & a woman attempting to document bigfoot. Bigfoot,if thats what you want to call him,actually only makes a few appearances in the movie which are all pretty lame. Whats even more lame is the cheap gorilla costume the guy wore to pretend to be bigfoot. Its the dumbest bigfoot movie ive ever seen.
4585488
Didnt look anything like the pictures. I understand every one is unique, but the one I got was very crudely cut out of the stone, was cracked, and to be perfectly honest, it looks like a fake.  Im going to keep it as a reminder to do a little more research before I throw down $20 for a trilobite fossil. It honestly looks like someone carved it out of clay and glued it to a rock.
300057
The authors of this book think the Toltec could be the ancestors of the Aztecs-maybe. Or they could have existed the same time as the Maya. The architecture is alike - sort of.
In other words, they admitted they don't know.
That's okay. I like honest people. The Toltec lived before the Aztec, almost certainly, and there's a good reason there's no paper trail. Besides the fact that there was no paper.
Seems a nameless Aztec wanted to rewrite, and prewrite, the history of his people. That would be like destroying my Papaw's family Bible, finding one of the same age and even finding old ink.
Then I would have to find someone who wrote in the style of a person born in the 1890's. Did you even consider that? Yep. Writing styles change, too.
If I was able to find those items and such a person I could write something really juicy, or I could make my family just as boring as it was, but maybe boring in a different way.
The Aztec-Toltec-Maya wouldn't have to work near that hard. Their writing material was stone. All rocks were pretty much the same age. Their writing method was carving. If we were trying to determine if something was newly carved as opposed to two hundred years old, that would be easy.
But to determine if a carving was 1500 years old as opposed to 1650 years old? I don't know if science is quite that advanced.
But I believe we have evidence from a Spanish conquistadors that an Aztec was rewriting his family history.
We have evidence that Toltec and Maya carvings have similar influence.
In other words, we ain't got nothing.
Though this book says an Aztec rewrote history, the book doesn't say where that info came from. If you caught the guy in the act there would still be people alive who remembered the real version. Did anyone think about finding the real version and writing in down?
Do you see why I'm confused?
The Toltec people would have lived in meso America, i.e. Mexico. I was surprised at the number of pyramids in Mexico. I knew they were there- just not that many.
And the carvings are surprisingly intricate.
But this book still confused me.
4401600
Bought this video for my son and realized that it was a long-winded documentary that tries to use fairly old graphics to describe a world for the first explorers in North America (and the animals they encourtered), Austrlia's Aborigine's and other areas of the world.  The Graphics were probably made in the late 70's/early 80's, so someone who views this as if they were watching the Walking With Series graphics is going to be very disappointed.  It was informative in some aspects, but I wouldn't say that this would be comparable to the Discovery Channel DVD's of Prehistoric Animals.
496423
Warning - contains so-called "natural flavors". Definitely NOT paleo, as advertised.
1264021
I read this book years ago when living in the Yukon Territory and it was hard to swallow. It perpetuates the myth of the "Noble Savage" while littering the pages with racial and cultural stereotypes. It assumes that, just because the protagonist claims some Native ancestry, he automatically knows how to survive in a wilderness in which he has never set foot before. It claims that all Native people are actually teaching their children survival techniques, like how to make stone arrowheads, etc. like they did thousands of years ago,while forgetting that 10,000 years ago we were all making stone tools. Or worse, that this knowledge is inherited. By this argument one could say why even go to school when all you really need to know is passed down through your genes? And what is with the scalping, and shooting down aircraft with a bow? In what universe is this possible?

Maybe I am being too serious here, after all it's just a story, and not a very good one at that, but I can do without these knuckle dragging, chest thumping, flag waving, male dominated fantasies. This is just Rambo with a Native American twist.
2666720
These early 20th Century Spanish language swanks were written by a magazine write. The linguistic culture here is that of supraregional magazine writing. It corresponds exactly to the light journalistic culture of Anglo-American comic magazine writing. It is not "spoken Mexican Spanish", and the events and characterizations could have been invented by a complete outsider to the culture. They are generic and demonstrate no particular familiarity with the situations of the protagonists. This is the sort of thing that would wind up dominating television in both cultures. There is nothing folkloristic or insightful about it.

It's said that this has some sort of historical significance for "Chicano literature". I'm in no position to argue that point, but, if it's true in some deep sense, so much the worse for "Chicano literature".

This book may be of some value if you're interested in the history of mass culture. Otherwise, it's worthless.
1280584
As a professional geologist, I have some special expertise in karst limestone formations. I also have decades worth of paranormal research under by belt so I think I can rightfully critique this volume. Ill be blunt, this book is shallow, pretentious nonsense. The geological explanations are so muddled, and nonsensical - jaw-droppingly bad. Yohe is not a scientist but is pretending to play one. If the best you can cite are popular websites or How Stuff Works as your references, you should not be writing books for anyone.

Paranormalists LOVE the idea of the stone tape theory because it sounds sciencey and they can buffalo those readers who don't have enough science background to be able to tell how ridiculous it sounds.  Always be concerned about self-published books that claim to be bridging science and the paranormal. Turn and RUN away from any that invoke quantum theories of entanglement. It's all hand waving and bamboozling with big words and amateur speculation.

This is a book of pseudoscience. Neither limestone nor any other type of rock (ghost hunters playing scientists like to invoke granite and other quartz-containing rock) has ever been shown to any degree to absorb emotional energy and then play it back later. Not only is there no viable mechanism for recording or for playback, there is no evidence that this even is a reasonable observation. A scientific theory is one that has been supported by evidence and can be used to predict observations. The "stone tape" theory is not a theory - it's a handy speculative fictional device.

To affect scientific expertise when you have none is abhorrent to me. This book is just terrible. An awful waste of words. If you read it, you will end up more misinformed than informed.
4126700
It was to much like Far Cry 3, same engine. No interesting mechanics. Didn't explore the prehistoric theme that much. No dinosaurs.
3183815
its narrated and i didn't care fr it, one for being narrated and two, it was the wrong prehistoric women.
3079952
Absolute pile of dinopoop.  Dinosaurs did NOT EVER roam the Earth with humans.  Ham is NOT a scientist and knows absolutely ZERO about dinosaurs or anything else that happened before 10,000BC precisely because he doesn't BELIEVE in facts.  If you want your kids to grow up looking real stupid, feed them this drivel.  Even if you are Christian, PLEASE read any of the zillions of science texts that actually base their content on proven fact.  And don't believe the "it's just a theory" BS.  Gravity is also a "theory" which you would know if you read a science book.  Kirk out.
4533446
This amethyst cluster didn't have good points at all. there was calcite on the points that were there. Not a good look.
4092209
Argh - hoping to find a good survey of the geologic processes behind the Earth we know today but written for a non-geologist, I found his writing unfocused, tortured and pedantic -especially for someone who claimed to be targeting the geological neophyte.  Just ghastly and dry.  I suspect Mr Fortey's editor was handing out bonuses for using words that only 1 in 3 Phds had any chance of recognizing.  Mr Fortey must have picked up enough money on this incentive for a nice gourmet dinner.

This is an easy book to set aside. Just pick up a college geology text book and you will be better off!
1265827
I really enjoy documentaries, especially about nature. When I bought this, I expected beautiful, sweeping vistas and interesting information. I got neither. This production house creates the most amateur videos I've ever seen. It may be in blu-ray, but the images are far from stunning, the script seems oddly partisan and politcal, the hosts are more like drones, and some of the information they present isn't accurate. Skip this and save yourself the five bucks and hours of your life you'll never be able to get back.