This is a story about mysteries from distant millennia—about the “blank spots” of the earliest history, about extraordinary events whose participants were our great-great-great-grandmothers and grandfathers… Ten thousand centuries ago a strange two-legged creature, gripping a huge bone in its hand, smashed ape skulls among the rocks of South Africa. For thousands of years without interruption, a fantastic bonfire was probably burning in a dark cave in North China. A chance purchase made in one Chinese apothecary unexpectedly led to the discovery of real giants. About four hundred centuries ago mighty and wise Cro-Magnon tribes appeared at the foot of a glacier, and a revolution in human history took place—colossal and still far from explained. You can learn all of this from this book.