A review by slc54hiwi
Dance of the Tiger: A Novel of the Ice Age by Björn Kurtén, Bjorn Kurten

5.0

This is one of the best fictional treatments of Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens that I know of. Kurten was a well-respected palaeontologist, and his breadth of knowledge shows in this book. The story, however, is so well & sensitively told (even in translation) that the science "goes down" fairly painlessly. I have had my physical anthropology students read this & I know others who've assigned this to beginning anthropology students; nearly all of them like it and get quite a bit from the book.

BTW, I think that this edition is a more recent one since I'm sure I read this first more than 20 years ago.