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# shannonskaer.com

Shannon Skaer Ancient Historical Fiction Author

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## Posts

- [The Antikythera Mechanism: Cicero’s Mic Drop on Modern Science](https://shannonskaer.com/the-antikythera-mechanism-ciceros-mic-drop-on-mom/) - f you didn’t catch that, Cicero just claimed that anyone with common sense couldn’t fail to see that the universe was created by an intelligent God. It’s almost as if Cicero doesn’t realize that he’s the backward ancient, and modern experts who believe in the modern idea that everything we see is the result of chance are the educated ones.
- [Billionaires, Please Read: The Lost City of Thônis-Heracleion](https://shannonskaer.com/billionaires-please-read-the-lost-city-of-thonis-heracleion/) - I think the super wealthy have an obligation to go forth and entertain the rest of us. Not through drama (we don’t need rich folks to generate that,) and certainly not by starting wars. History is peppered with the super wealthy acting on the misguided belief that a nice little war would liven us all up.
- [Help me choose a new cover for The Last Climb!](https://shannonskaer.com/help-me-choose-a-new-cover-for-the-last-climb/) - Thank you!
- [The Nazca: Climate Fear, Headhunting, and Other Timeless Sports](https://shannonskaer.com/the-nazca-lines-climate-fear-headhunting-and-other-timeless-sports/) - With normal water sources failing, the Nazca built an elaborate system of underground aqueducts to tap into subterranean aquifers. Tunnels carried the water from village to village. To keep the water flowing, they built “chimneys” into the underground canals in the shape of corkscrewing funnels, which caught prevailing winds and channeled them into the tunnels, increasing air pressure and helping to move water through the aqueducts.
- [Ignoble Savage: What the Bible says about Ancient Man](https://shannonskaer.com/ignoble-savage-what-the-bible-says-about-ancient-man/) - The Bible tells us a lot about ancient man. Exhibit A: Doodle made by a child over a thousand years ago when he should have been doing his schoolwork.
- [Archaeologists unearth more than bones on Henderson Island](https://shannonskaer.com/the-last-man-on-earth-as-told-by-a-trash-pile-the-story-of-henderson-island/) - How long did the last survivor live on the barren wind-swept shores of Henderson Island, the only human on earth, as far as he knew?
- [NYC in a 30 foot RV, or My Road Trip to Therapy](https://shannonskaer.com/nyc-by-30ft-rv/) - When the policeman flagged us down, we happened to be passing New York City. The next exit led downtown. Our 30 foot rig rolled off the interstate and onto the streets of upper Manhattan.
- [Man Chasing Chicken Discovers Ancient Underground City](https://shannonskaer.com/lost-chicken-discovered-ancient-city/) - His next step was bold. Some might say, overreactive. Those people have never owned chickens.
- [Ancient Man = Toddlers](https://shannonskaer.com/ancient-man-toddlers/) - 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
- [Mesa Verde, A Civilization on the Edge](https://shannonskaer.com/mesa-verde-a-civilization-on-the-edge/) - 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
- [Nan Madol: How to Build a City with Charisma (and 750,000 Tons of Stone)](https://shannonskaer.com/nan-madol/) - 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
- [Before the Aztecs: Your Lost Cousins in Pre-Columbian America](https://shannonskaer.com/before-the-aztecs-your-lost-cousins-in-pre-columbian-america/) - She slipped now and then, the cold, slick mud oozing between her toes, switching the child from one hip to the other. Several times she tried letting him walk on his own, but never for more than a few steps. Perhaps the toddler cried and refused to walk, or maybe he wouldn’t walk fast enough. Either way, she picked him up again and struggled on, making her way across the broad, windswept valley that divides the Sacramento Mountains from the San Andreas Mountains.
- [How to catch Ice Age Man using Digital Reindeer](https://shannonskaer.com/how-to-catch-ice-age-man-using-digital-reindeer/) - What would happen if we assumed ancient man was intelligent? One man did just that, and I haven’t been able to stop talking about it since, which, incidentally, is a substantial reason to have 10 children, all of which you homeschool. Captive audience. Professor John O’Shea is an archaeologist with the University of Michigan, who
- [The Mysterious Lake of Human Bones in Remote India](https://shannonskaer.com/the-mysterious-lake-of-human-bones-roopkund/) - In 1942, a forest ranger discovered a lake full of human bones high in the Himalayans. And when I say Roopkund Lake is full of bones—the remains of 300 people rest in the lake water.
- [Ancient Cave, No Good Explanation: The Longyou Grottoes](https://shannonskaer.com/ten-story-caves-zero-good-explanations-the-longyou-grottoes-mystery/) - For a day the pump labored in the murky depths of the Longyou Grottoes, taking only a few quick breaks to have mechanical problems, as is the nature of pumps. For a week it pumped. For two weeks.
- [Ten is a Perfect Number](https://shannonskaer.com/ten-is-a-perfect-number/) - And it's not because of the decimal system. Why then? Because baby #10 is apparently perfect. Our sweet girl arrived in May, all 7lb 2oz of her. She's a great snuggler, a beautiful girl, and the kind of gorgeous that knocks me over every time. Everything writing related in my life was put on pause
- [My trip to the Vision Christian Writers Conference](https://shannonskaer.com/my-trip-to-the-vision-christian-writers-conference/) - Have you ever been to a generic Christian women's conference? They've never really been my cup of tea, maybe because on the whole they feel unfocused. We go through Proverbs 31, but... Proverbs 31 covers a lot of ground, and, to avoid being cultish, we remind ourselves that it isn't a to-do list. Which it
- [Terra Preta - The Extraordinary Potting Soil of the Ancient Amazonians](https://shannonskaer.com/terra_preta/) - Some said the ancient peoples made Terra Preta accidentally, because it's normal to break insane amounts of pottery, mix it thoroughly with charcoal and animal bone fragments, and spread it around—just "fer fun."
- [Reading Ancient Mail isn't Snooping, Right?](https://shannonskaer.com/reading-ancient-mail-isnt-snooping-right/) - Reading ancient mail is fun, educational, and ethical. Did you know that humans have always been awkward? Listen to this:
- [Interview with Evonne Krell, author of The Tower](https://shannonskaer.com/the-tower-by-evonne-krell/) - My review of The Tower by Evonne Krell, a Selah Award winning chapter book that follows the adventures of three children at the Tower of Babel.
- [My favorite books on writing: Book Review of Steven James' "Story Trumps Structure"](https://shannonskaer.com/my-favorite-books-on-writing-book-review-of-steven-james-story-trumps-structure/) - Author Christina Suzanne Nelson recommended this book to me, and I'm so glad she did! This book was packed with lots of good information, too much to cover in a blog post, but here are my three biggest takeaways: It's not that stories don't need structure, but that structure needs logic. To quote a classic,

## Pages

- [Ancient Man from a Biblical Perspective](https://shannonskaer.com/) - I write historical fiction that explores ancient civilizations, archaeological discoveries and mysteries from man's past from a Christian worldview.
- [Get a free copy of The Last Climb: A Missoula Flood Short Story](https://shannonskaer.com/freebook/) - Get a free copy of The Last Climb: A Missoula Flood Short Story (True Disaster fiction) In the fading days of the Ice Age, a monster is unleashed. The Last Climb is a pulse-pounding, bite-sized tale of survival based on one of history’s greatest floods.
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- [Interviews](https://shannonskaer.com/about-me/interviews/) - Interviews I don't always do interviews, but when I do, I have too much fun... Click through to read interviews I've done! August, 2026 Interview on Amy Anguish's Blog ". . . As a homeschool mom of ten, how on earth do you find time to write? I find time to write by waking up
- [About Shannon](https://shannonskaer.com/about-me/) - About Shannon Hello there! Shannon Skaer writes fiction. She writes it in her head whenever she sees a photo of a bog body or a petroglyph scrawled on a canyon wall, or when she reads about the violent storms of the early Ice Age. And every now and then, she writes a story down. Shannon
- [My Favorite Books About Ancient Man](https://shannonskaer.com/my-favorite-resources-about-ancient-man/) - My Favorite Resources Books about Ancient Man from Christian Sources by James Ussher The Annals of the World Considered not only a classic work of literature, but also esteemed for its preciseness and accuracy, The Annals of the World has not been published in the English language since the 17th century. By Don Landis The Genius of Ancient
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- [A Novel of the Tower of Babel](https://shannonskaer.com/historical_fiction/) - A killer thinks she’s his soulmate, a King courts her influence, and her friends call her a traitor. Nothing is going according to plan. One hundred years after Noah’s flood, an optimistic young woman’s world is shattered when her father is murdered. Promised to a man she fears and transplanted to a city of strangers,
- [thank you](https://shannonskaer.com/thank-you/) - Thank you! Check your email to confirm that I've got the right email address and I'll send a link to download the ebook! Get to know me! Learn about my historical fiction Learn about my science fiction
- [Free Missoula Flood Study Guide for grades 3-8](https://shannonskaer.com/studyguide/) - The Last Climb Study Guide for Grades 3-8 As a homeschool mom, I love it when I can turn a "living book" into a unit study. The Last Climb is set in the last days of the Ice Age, and if you look for material for this time period, there isn't much available. This study
- [A Space Trilogy](https://shannonskaer.com/a-space-trilogy/) - Meet my current work in progress: The discovery of an ancient moon base changes everything. Part space comedy, part thriller, if this series is half as fun to read as it is to write, you won’t want to miss it! Sublunar The future of our planet depends on the solution to the coldest cold-case in
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