A journey in search of the living survivors of Stone Age societies.Vanishing primitive Man explores the history and present circumstances of ten primitive peoples - and along the way, tells the stories of many of civilized man's most exotic his first wary, mutually amazing meetings with utterly different cultures.Each chapter combines the accounts of explorers whose records form the basis of our knowledge of a primitive people with the latest insights of modern anthropologists. The culture's prehistoric origins, physical characteristics, social structure, and situation today are probed and pictured, to reveal rich lives of religion and magic, of great skills and casual bravery. Much of the information was unknown until this decade, much is rare history., ISBN13:9780070563483 ISBN10:0070563489 Material Type:hardcover