Hear! Hear! Both books were required reading in a senior archaeology seminar
I once took (lo, these many years ago!). I found Kurten's book to be far
superior. His second novel, Singletusk, is pretty darned good, too!
 
Chris Andersen
 
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> Bjorn Kurten's "Dance of the Tiger" is a novel incorporating an hypothesis
> about the outcome of the encounter between "Neanderthal" and "Cro-
> Magnon" populations in northern Europe.  It is good reading and, as
> Gould points out in his Introduction, soundly grounded in biology and
> genetics.  I much preferred Kurten's novels over Jean Auel's "Clan of the
> Cave Bear" which, I confess, I couldn't finish.
>
> MJ
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