book framed in a novel many scenarios of Modern Korean culture and a prehistoric culture with which I was unfamiliar.
I was inspired to
read on when reading just the facts would not have held my interest, The structure of the novel, one chapter in one culture and the next in the other culture, kept two story lines going.
It is a technique used in several contemporary pieces of literature that I have read recently and is intriguing.
I recommend it.
Roberta Sarah Nelsons teaching novel follows Clara, a KoreanAmerican archaeologist, to an excavation in her ancestral homeland.
The story recounts her experiences as a field archaeologist and as a young woman caught between two cultures.
Nelson also tells the story of Flyingbird and the Neolithic people who lived in the mound Clara is excavating.
Addressing issues of gender, shamanism, ethnic identity, and Neolithic culture, and written by a leading American archaeologist specializing in these topics, this volume is both a good read and good archaeology.
An ideal starting point to introduce archaeology to college students, .