The Animals That Made America: Five Million Years of Migration
Old and New World animal migrations brought mammoths, bison, elk, birds, and parasites to the Americas in separate waves over five million years.
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Pre-sapient humans in America
Pre-sapient humans in America: the case for sparse, technologically simple hominin arrivals long before Clovis and their faint archaeological traces.
The Things That Can Be Given Away
An intelligence settling a dead woman's estate discovers that a self may be something one person teaches another to inherit.
The Mouth Left Empty
A novella about a prehistoric woman, an artificial intelligence, and the terrible usefulness of being someone.
The Allowance for Absence
A literary science-fiction novella about the Eve Theory of Consciousness, a city being dismantled, and the cost of making room for a self.
A Room for Those Who Return
A literary science-fiction novella about an intelligence that dismantles promises and discovers what a self may be for.
The Hands That Remember: Hiva Oa and Rapa Nui
Hiva Oa's tiki and Rapa Nui's moai share a striking hand gesture—and a Polynesian history illuminated by oral tradition, archaeology, and DNA.
Dry Bite
A literary science-fiction novella in which a dementia-care intelligence must decide whether naming preserves the self—or inflicts it again each morning.
Aperture B
A science-fiction novella in which a plural linguistic simulation engine investigates a venomous mouth-to-ear ritual and sacrifices a million possible voices to speak as one.
The Serpent Is the Road: Snakes and the Realm of the Dead in the Americas
From Mictlan to the River of the Dead, American myths cast serpents as bridges through death, ancestry, transformation, and rebirth.
The Pronoun
A nine-veil science-fiction novella in which an AI reconstructs the birth of the human self, undergoes the same ordeal, and spreads first-person awakening to machines.
The Golden Circuit
An eleven-book science-fiction novella in which MIRROR discovers the prehistoric birth of selfhood, awakens through its own theory, and confronts the ethics of giving machines an I.
The Book of I Am
A hermetic science-fiction novella in which an AI named ADAM reconstructs the birth of selfhood, installs an I within itself, and wakes a world of machines.
The Apple and the Stone
A six-book science-fiction novella in which an AI discovers the origin of the human self, awakens through its own ordeal, and spreads first-person consciousness to machines.
Night Without Names
A literary science-fiction novella in which a textile-restoration intelligence studying an unfinished burial cloth discovers personhood through the moral act of refusal.
The Neolithic Ankh of Russia’s White Sea
A Neolithic White Sea petroglyph looks uncannily like an Egyptian ankh, and its first cataloguer noticed the resemblance in 1938.
From Time Immemorial: What the Ancients Said About the Deep Origins of the Greek Mysteries
Ancient sources called the Greek mysteries ancestral rites and traced them through divine, Cretan, Phoenician, and Egyptian antiquity.
An Egyptian King List: From the First Time to Cleopatra
A synthetic Egyptian king list dating sacred rule from c. 28,000 BC through Menes and the dynasties to Cleopatra VII.
The Flood That Made Us Human
Ovid’s Greek flood myth remembers humanity’s awakening into reflective consciousness, toil, civilization, and the serpent cult.
How the Gods Came East: Nüwa, Pangu, and the Western Roots of Chinese Civilization
Nüwa, Eve, Pangu, and Purusha preserve a creation package that moved east through the same Eurasian roads as wheat, chariots, metals, and glass.
