Name: We Did Not Evolve Here (Common Heritage)
SKU: 69238070
Price: 749.00 TWD
Availability: InStock
Author: Sarrar, Adam
ISBN: 9798176490824

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We Did Not Evolve Here (Common Heritage)

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Independently published

Author

Sarrar, Adam

Language

English

Pages

331

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9798176490824

We Did Not Evolve Here (Common Heritage)

Sarrar, Adam (Author) · Independently published · Paperback

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Synopsis "We Did Not Evolve Here (Common Heritage)"

A paleoanthropologist puts her arm through a hole in a quarry floor in Morocco and photographs a wall that sealed itself before her species had a name. On it is a mark. The same mark is cut into a pillar in Turkey eleven thousand years old, into twenty-eight niches under the floor of a tomb at Saqqara, into the wall of a room inside the Great Pyramid that nobody has entered. It has not changed in three hundred thousand years. Every human script drifts. This one never did. Elena Marchetti reads bone. Sammy Mahfoudi has spent nine years arguing that three marks on a stone are a ledger, and being told that you cannot argue for a ledger with no entries. Between them, from a cave in Morocco to a granite box at Saqqara, from a kitchen table in Bloomsbury to a buried room in the western Amazon, they find the entries. What was being counted was us. A thriller built on real stones and real papers: the skull from Jebel Irhoud, the houses at Göbekli Tepe, the void above the Grand Gallery, the copper pins at the end of a sealed shaft, the bracelet in a London museum that nobody has read, and the one question underneath all of them, which is why the oldest writing on Earth is in a language nobody can name. Everything the characters call real is real. What they make of it is the story. Book one of the Common Heritage series.

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