"The years between 6400 and 6000 BC saw tumultuous changes in the land now called Turkey. Alongside the ebb and flow of settled peoples in this epoch, traditional hunting and gathering groups continued to pursue the seasonal round that had sustained them for thousands of years. It is into one of these traditional families of foragers that this novel's storyteller, Tulirane, was born in 6350 BC, and it is through his eyes that we view the often baffling phenomena of late seventh millennium Turkey."