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If you're excited by prehistory and hunter-gatherer society might I suggest reading The Earth's Children Series by Jean Auel.

It's one of my favorite series and was well researched by the author before writing. It tells the story of a young human who travels across Europe.

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The first one was very interesting, interestingly it included interbreeding with neanderthals before neanderthal dna was disovered in our DNA.

The rest had quite a soap opera / "housewife porn" elements, but also some interesting bits surrounding toolmaking, hunting, etc.

Yeah there is a fair amount of sexual activity going on but the whole series is about the reverence of the motherly spirit, the donii, and so it's contextually appropriate.

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