This humorous account of human evolution, from the beginnings of
bipedalism through the Upper Paleolithic, is set in the context of a
cookbook, with recipes and cartoons to match the unfolding stories. Each
chapter discusses a particular milestone or event in human development,
and a dash of prehistory, a sprinkling of recipes, and a generous
helping of humor painlessly lighten the professorial instruction.
From leading us to understand the first tool makers to showing us how to
prepare a Neanderthal dinner party at the site of the authors' most
recent excavations in Pech de l'Aze in France's Dordogne Valley near the
town of Sarlat, this book presents archaeology as never before.