The Denisovans

Seventy-four thousand years ago, a supervolcano erupted on the other side of the world. The sky above the Tibetan Plateau turned the wrong color. The stars blurred at their edges. The animals began to move.

The Sky People read what the earth was telling them. They left.

Descent is the first book in The Denisovans, a work of literary prehistoric fiction following a small band of Denisovans - the enigmatic ancient humans whose DNA survives today in the genomes of Melanesian and Aboriginal Austr...