Full Circle

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Felicity Edwards

This is a fictional account of the newly discovered archaic humans the Denisovans. These people were identified from DNA recovered from a fossilised bone of a young girl in a cave in the Altai Mountains of southwest Siberia in 2010, The Denisovans lived in caves part of the time and evidence exists to show they cohabited with Neanderthals. They had a high level of sophistication from the stone artefacts found in the cave. Including a beautiful green stone bracelet made of calcite to spear and arrowheads.

This book travels in tandem between the ancient shaman, Guta and a modern young self-taught shaman/shepherd Ivan. Shamanically he travels back in time and thinks of these ancient people as his people. To further his understanding of these people the archaeologist Sonja encourages him to study and gain an archaeological qualification. This combination leads to an interesting technique where he travels back and observes different events then returns to the site as the modern man to excavate which leads to a higher rate of recovery of artefacts.

Ivan identifies so closely with the ancient people he experiences their emotional torment when a mammoth hunt goes disastrously wrong as well as when the ancient shaman's wife nearly dies in childbirth.

In the modern world, he and his friends turn to up-to-the-minute technology like drones and robots to locate important structures. This enables his colleagues to see the cave paintings he has described from his trances. Validating his unusual approach to exploration.