My Prehistoric Family

"How much do you know about your great-great-grandfather? And about relatives from the Paleolithic? With the help of genetic tests and archaeological data, Swedish journalist Karin Bojs traced her genealogy over 54,000 years and discovered many amazing facts about distant ancestors and herself. For instance, how the discovery of America affected the DNA of many Icelanders, why the popular paleo diet is based on misconceptions, and which common notions about ‘Aryans’ do not correspond to reality. ‘My Prehistoric Family’ is a scientifically accurate yet personal view of our large human family and its history.

‘This is a unique account of the fates of human populations over the course of half a hundred thousand years. On one hand, the author did not aim for all of humanity and the entire planet, limiting herself to her own 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 cultivation of plants, the building of cities, and the invention of metal smelting. It is astonishing how Bojs managed to cover all this in such a compact volume.’ — Stanislav Drobyshevsky, anthropologist, candidate of biological sciences, scientific editor of the ‘Anthropogenesis.RU’ portal, author of popular science books."