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Help/Discussion: Site 20, Foamhedge, Centerville, Virginia


1. Location: Centerville, Virginia
Read a book set in Virginia.

2. About: Foamhenge is a replica of Stonehenge only in Styrofoam.
Read a book that is a retelling of an original story.

3. Souvenir: Miniature replica of Stonehenge - Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, two miles west of Amesbury.
Read a book set in prehistoric times. The book may be a time travel story where the characters travel back to prehistoric times.

Any suggestions for a book set in prehistoric times?

I learnt that The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is about time travel to prehistoric times. It is the second book in the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Has anyone read it?

Well, part of it includes time travel to a prehistoric earth. I read it last year.

Dawn wrote: "Well, part of it includes time travel to a prehistoric earth. I read it last year."

Great... I guess it's a good option then...

Gunit Kaur wrote: "Any suggestions for a book set in prehistoric times?"

I plan on reading Fire-Hunter by Jim Kjelgaard

Gunit Kaur wrote: "Dawn wrote: "Well, part of it includes time travel to a prehistoric earth. I read it last year."

Great... I guess it's a good option then..."

Only if the time travel to a prehistoric time constitutes about 50%. This would be consistent with our setting requirements.

Dawn, can you confirm?

I think it was only the last 6 or 7 chapters that were in prehistoric times. So at best it probably only constitutes 25% and that would be an optimistic estimate.

Isn't The Clan of the Cave Bear set in prehistoric times?

Yes it is.

It is not a period of history I like to read much but there is also The Inheritors or Shaman

Thanks, Dawn for your titles. I am still looking for a book for this topic. I have read all of "The Clan of" books. I will pass on The Inheritors but added Shaman to my challenge list, although I think KSR is too verbose.

Gunit - I think there is an old series of books called People of the something that will fit this topic, although I think I have read all of them too. Here is the link to the series:
https://www.goodreads.com/series/4099...

I was thinking about reading Edgar Rice Burroughs 's Pellucidar.

For prehistoric times, Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver is a great read. It is YA series, so if Clan of the Cave Bear is too intense, is may be a good alternative

Thank you, Emma! I am definitely checking that series out!

Kathleen O'Neal Gear and her husband write the series North America's Forgotten Past. I'll be reading People of the Masks for this task.

The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness Series and Shaman look interesting to me. I think I might go for one of these 2...

Would you consider a story set in the early Biblical times prehistoric?

I'm specifically looking at this title
Noah's Wife by T.K. Thorne

♞ Pat wrote: "Would you consider a story set in the early Biblical times prehistoric?

I'm specifically looking at this title
Noah's Wife by [author:T.K. Thorne|..."

I think it would be defined a prehistoric - concerning a period of time before the existence of the written record.

Janice wrote: "♞ Pat wrote: "Would you consider a story set in the early Biblical times prehistoric?

I'm specifically looking at this title



I think it would be defined a prehistoric - concerning a period of time before the existence of the written record...."

Thanks, Janice.

I thought it would fit, since Noah was before Moses and nothing about the Hebrew history was written before Moses (or Bathsheba or Aaron or whoever) put the Pentateuch on record, but I wasn't sure.