Mammoth hunters by Jean M. Auel

[pischo]

Did any one read Mammoth hunters? I'm very interested in part about "getting knowledge through memories, past to us by ours ancestress"

 

[Jacques]

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[Ottershrew]

Did any one read Mammoth hunters? I'm very interested in part about "getting knowledge through memories, past to us by ours ancestress"

Oh well, you'll love "Before Adam" by Jack London, then. The process of receiving knowledge through genetic memory is covered here. It looks pretty uncomfortable.

The text is available online here: Before Adam

Here are the opening words of the novel, told by the 20th-century narrator:

Pictures! Pictures! Pictures! Often, before I learned, did I wonder whence came the multitudes of pictures that thronged my dreams; for they were pictures the like of which I had never seen in real wake-a-day life. They tormented my childhood, making of my dreams a procession of nightmares and a little later convincing me that I was different from my kind, a creature unnatural and accursed.

In my days only did I attain any measure of happiness. My nights marked the reign of fear—and such fear! I make bold to state that no man of all the men who walk the earth with me ever suffer fear of like kind and degree. For my fear is the fear of long ago, the fear that was rampant in the Younger World, and in the youth of the Younger World. In short, the fear that reigned supreme in that period known as the Mid-Pleistocene.

More interesting, perhaps, is John Tempest's novel "Vision of the Hunter". Here the process is reversed. The vision of how to make things better for the central character's tribe doesn't come from the past. It's forward-looking, and more about a connection with, and respect for, the whole of nature.