My Prehistoric Family

"How much do you know about your great-great-grandfather? And about relatives from the Paleolithic? Using genetic tests and archaeological data, Swedish journalist Karin Bojs traced her genealogy over 54,000 years and learned many fascinating facts about her distant ancestors and herself. For example, how the discovery of America affected the DNA of many Icelanders, why the popular paleo diet is based on misconceptions, and what common views about the "Aryans" are not true. "My Prehistoric Family" is a scientifically accurate yet personal look at our large human family and its history.

"This is a unique story of the fates of human populations over the course of fifty thousand years. On one hand, the author did not attempt to cover all of humanity and the entire planet, limiting herself to her family. On the other hand, even in the history of one family, there are echoes of mixing with Neanderthals, migration to other continents, the domestication of animals and plants, the construction of cities, and the invention of metal smelting. One can only marvel at how Bojs managed to encompass all of this in such a concise format."— Stanislav Drobyshevsky, anthropologist, candidate of biological sciences, scientific editor of the portal "Anthropogenesis.RU", author of popular science books."