Imagine you are living in a world with an environment only remotely like your own and in a time when your main source of survival technology is made of stone. You have no writing to pass on the basics of your group heritage. Yet, you possess an essentially modern brain, capable of all the complexities of human communication and social skills we practice today. You have just entered the world of The Stone Breakers, a story of the first peoples who came to and settled America during and at the end of the last Ice Age. The "People of the Stone" novels, of which this is the first of six, is not just another "how to live in the Stone Age" book series. It is a new look at important questions of the day concerning the origins and spread of the first Americans and their struggles as individuals to people a vast, new land.