Help me choose a new cover for The Last Climb!

1. Ancient men were just people, and people haven’t changed. Exhibit A: Doodle made by a child over a thousand years ago when he should have been doing his schoolwork. Here, ancient man exhibits classic signs of humanity: as with any modern child, Onfim (he signed it) has made himself the victor. On the top right…

He had every reason to believe he was the only human left, and he knew what extinction meant. After all he’d seen several species that once inhabited his barren little island go extinct. On the Pacific Ocean’s Henderson Island lies a heap of bones and refuse three hundred meters long and thirty meters wide. The…

In 1963, a man in Derinkuyu, Turkey, couldn’t keep his chickens from disappearing. The chickens were kept in an apparently safe location; his basement. No wild animals, no place for the feathered beasts to hide, right? So where did they go? One day he entered the basement in time to see a fluffy feathered rear…

Have you ever noticed that our expectations for ancient man are similar to those for toddlers?   Hear me out:1. They aren’t allowed to use power tools.2. They can’t be motivated by practicality.3. They must believe in Santa Claus and bogeymen under the bed. Yes, I know, it sounds weird, but let’s look at Gobekli Tepe. Discovered in 1994, this site…

What would induce you to live on a cliff, like the Mesa Verde cliffdwellers did? I’m talking a 600ft drop on one side, and rise of 50-100ft above you. Your family lives in a crack in the stone face, with no water source and no room for a garden. To reach your home, you have…

Once upon a time, two brothers landed on an island in the Pacific, and convinced the thousands of people who lived there to forsake their relatively peaceful, low-maintenance life, and devote their energy and time to building Nan Madol, a megalithic city. (Or we can believe the local legend that they built it with the help…