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La danza della tigre: un romanzo dell'era glaciale

di Björn Kurtén

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Bjorn Kurten's compelling novel gives the reader a detailed picture of life 35,000 years ago in Western Europe. One of the world's leading scholars of Ice Age fauna, Kurten fuses extraordinary knowledge and imagination in this vivid evocation of our deepest past. This novel illuminates the lives of the humans who left us magnificent paintings in the caves of France and Spain.… (altro)
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A paleontologist writes a novel of Neandertals and Cro-Magnons during an ice age long ago. Very '70s, but not at all bad. There are somewhat unsuccesful inventions of two technologies, war and domestication of animals, but the time will come when those inventions are completed. The author speculates on the precise way in which the Neandertal peoples were displaced by the Cro-Magnon somewhat plausibly. He was ahead of his time. For many years, it was felt that modern humans were not related to Neandertal, but more recent research seems to indicate that most humans are carrying around a bit of Neandertal DNA. ( )
  themulhern | Jan 15, 2023 |
What picture does the word “neandertal” conjure up? Something hunched? Hulking? Brutish? Lumbering? It’s extraordinary that after more than a century this image persists so stubbornly, because it’s quite wrong and in an Introduction to the 1980 edition of this novel biologist Steven J Gould explained how such a grotesque cartoon ever came about in the first place.
    Dance of the Tiger was primarily a vehicle for Björn Kurtén’s theory about their disappearance; but it was also an attempt to bring both them and our own ancestors properly to life as people. Back in the 1950s Kurtén was one of the world’s leading authorities on this whole subject, but some of his ideas were so radical even he only put them forward in this form (which he himself described as “palaeo-fiction”). It’s set in what is today south-eastern Sweden, 35,000 years ago during one of the warmer intervals between successive glaciations, and there are two kinds of human on the planet: the Cro-Magnons from Africa via Asia, who year on year are encroaching ever further into the lands of the indigenous Neandertal population of Europe. There’s misunderstanding, conflict, friendship and interbreeding. We get a good idea of the kind of world this was happening in too, with its glacial eskers and moraines, its woolly rhinos, mammoths and sabre-toothed cats.
    It’s not the story itself here which will stick in my mind (I found the middle part a bit tedious to be honest), or Kurtén’s theory either; that can now be discounted, particularly since completion in 2010 of the Neandertal Genome Project. For me, and I would guess a lot of other readers too, what’s most striking is his sympathetic (in fact unforgettable) depiction of neandertals as living breathing people: their customs and manners, their minds. And, unlike his theory about their disappearance, much of it is looking increasingly accurate.
    Oh yes, and one final thing: so why did they disappear? The answer is, they didn’t entirely. With the single exception of anyone from Africa south of the Sahara desert, everyone else on the planet today has a small percentage of Neandertal genes in their chromosomes—so they’re still here, part of what most of us are, part of our own ancestry. And if Kurtén’s portrayal of them as people is even half accurate, it’s quite possible too that at least some of our better qualities come from them. ( )
  justlurking | Jan 12, 2023 |
Narra el encuentro entre dos especies humanas, homo sapiens y neandertal, que tratan de sobrevivir en un entorno hostil. Asistimos a su lucha continua con las fuerzas de la naturaleza, contemplamos su modo de vida ancestral, atisbamos sus temores, logros y creencias, y somos testigos de excepción de su enigmático proceso de creación artística. Ningún ingrediente echará en falta el lector en esta soberbia novela de aventuras prehistóricas.
  Natt90 | Dec 22, 2022 |
medium writing but surprisingly prescient considering what we now know about interbreeding between h. sapiens and h. neandertalensis ( )
  Rubygarnet | Dec 10, 2022 |
Excellent Despite Falling Short

"Dance of the Tiger" is a wonderful book in many respects. Unfortunately, it is also a hurried book that does not complete explanations.

The first two thirds of the book are wonderful. The imagery is excellent, calling forth wonderful descriptions of a natural world that is just beginning to come in contact with humans. The way in which Kurtén describes the two different human societies is realistic and plausible. Both cultures are in tune with their natural surroundings, although the "sapient," Cro-Magnon culture is depicted as much more violent, more exploitative and more possessive. The Neandertal culture is more domestic, more forgiving, and more gentle. Both cultures are shamanistic and ritualized. The actions of the characters throughout the book are all logical and consistent. Kurtén makes it clear in his introduction that these depictions are based on his observations and his own deductions, though they certainly don't arrive at the point of a scientific theory.

Where "Dance of the Tiger" fails is in the last third of the book. The pace of the plot picks up considerably, so many details and explanations get left behind. The climactic, near apocalyptic, action sequence did not make much sense to me. It was a combination of mysticism and poorly described action. It left me confused and a little frustrated.

In the edition I read, Stephen Jay Gould provided a nice introduction. Kurtén himself also wrote an introduction and a conclusion that focus on the science and speculation of the book.

The faults of the last third aside, this book fills a much-needed void: pre-historic literature that shows realistic societies and characters in a world that is ultimately scientific and natural. Despite the shortcomings, "Dance of the Tiger" is a novel that deserves respect and attention. ( )
  mvblair | Aug 9, 2020 |
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Bjorn Kurten's compelling novel gives the reader a detailed picture of life 35,000 years ago in Western Europe. One of the world's leading scholars of Ice Age fauna, Kurten fuses extraordinary knowledge and imagination in this vivid evocation of our deepest past. This novel illuminates the lives of the humans who left us magnificent paintings in the caves of France and Spain.

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