Another almost great book by Sarah Shaber. on the one hand, she did some decent research on the migration path of the earliest humans settling in America. She brought to the fore some of the arguments for and against housing skeletal remains in museums.

But then she tried to go beyond her knowledge and introduce a relatively new system of dating artifacts that is used by specialists, called "bp" or "before present." She fell down in trying to explain the dating system, and without a full explanation, this reader thinks she should have left well enough alone. "BP" refers to the years before 1950, which, as I am reading this book in 2016, is 66 years ago. Presumably, at some future date, archeologists will begin to use a new technical term.

But St. Martin's Press continues to publish Shaber's books without first editing them. At Kindle location 328, she writes that Dr. Morgan died, "early this morning." He had died yesterday. What a difference a day truly makes.

At Kindle location 649ish, she has Julia twist her hair into a French braid. Is Sarah a pseudonym for a guy? One plaits, or braids, one's hair into a French braid (yes, it is different from an ordinary braid), and one twists one's hair into a French twist. ( )