We took the dogs for a walk at 4:00 AM this morning, and the sky was stunning. Orion, The Hand constellation in the Southeastern Ceremonial tradition, was blazing just over the mountain. Now, we are off to work on PEOPLE OF THE CANYONS.
Tag Archives: anthropology
Still summer, but not for long…
- Monday, 17 September 2018 05:57
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New Review for MOON HUNT!
- Tuesday, 19 December 2017 12:35
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We just received a lovely review for MOON HUNT in the Providence Journal:
“Few authors have ever been able to lay claim to a genre. But Kathleen and Michael Gear have taken historical fiction and made it all their own, as clearly displayed in “Moon Hunt” (Forge, 416 pages, $26.99), the third in their Native American Morning Star series.
All the staples of the Gears’ brilliant, richly drawn tapestries are firmly on display here, once again… The Gears have reconstructed Moon Hunt’s ancient world with such vivid tones and expertly crafted detail that it magically comes to life in the tradition of James Michener. But they’re much better storytellers and the result is a tale certain to generate broad appeal, whether you’re a history buff or not.”
Providence Journal, December 19, 2017.
Thanks! It’s always a relief to get a great review!
Hope everyone is having warm and wonderful holidays!
Mike and Kathy
Books on sale for the holidays!
- Thursday, 10 December 2015 11:51
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We hope you are having a joyous holiday season. It’s been unseasonably warm in northern Wyoming. For us, that means it’s a whopping 48 degrees this afternoon. The buffalo love this weather. There’s almost no snow cover, so it’s easy for them to get to the tall grasses on the mountain slopes.
Just FYI, our great publisher has placed several of our books on sale for $4.99 for the holidays. We’re delighted by this. If you don’t have these titles and wish to get them, now is the time!
People of the Fire
Betrayal
People of the Morning Star
People of the Weeping Eye
People of the Longhouse
Dawn Country
Morning River
Best Wishes for a wonderful December filled with the warmth of family and friends.
Michael and Kathleen
Young Adult novel set 20,000 years ago…
- Sunday, 08 November 2015 15:12
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We have had the best time writing our first Young Adult novel, set 20,000 years ago, at the height of the Pleistocene Ice Age. What fun to writer about American lions, sabertooth cats, dire wolves, giant bison, mammoths and giant beavers. Had Mike on tenterhooks (your word for the day) when young Lynx fell into the crevasse. It’s great inspiration to be able to watch bison out the window while writing about their ancestors who roamed the continent twenty centuries ago.
Doggerland 8,000 years ago
- Sunday, 20 September 2015 10:43
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This is one of the “Ladies of Teviec.” She was found in a Mesolithic cemetery off the coast of Brittany, France. Her remains date to around 8,500 years ago. She was approximately 25 years old. She died when someone clubbed her in the head five times, cracking her skull, and she was shot between the eyes with an arrow. Her loved ones must have found her body, because she was buried with care in a pit roofed with red deer antlers.
We all like to believe that some time in the distant past there was a Golden Age of peace and prosperity where people lived in harmony, but the truth is, while there were harmonious episodes in human prehistory, they were relatively short and punctuated by extreme violence. In the case of the Ladies of Teviec, the climate was changing, shifting from the Pleistocene Ice Age and into this warm period we enjoy now, the Holocene. Sea level was rising. The “ladies”” homeland, which archaeologists call Doggerland, was being swallowed by the ocean. Apparently, war erupted as people scrambled for disappearing land. Eventually there would be no dry land left in Doggerland for anyone.