Well, I can't say this was super well edited, I found a number of typos in the last section, which made me think my confusions and struggle to get hooked by this book may have had more to do with the text than I'd assumed. I think it may be an instance of a busy academic trying to write a popular book and doing it in chunks without anyone really looking to see if the sections flow well together, if there's a narrative.

So ...enh? Do I feel smarter about stuff that I really knew very little about to start? I think I gained an appreciation for how groups may have moved across the arctic - and that it's all a LOT more complicated than I might have imagined. That's cool.

I found myself wondering about this same work for Europe - how did populations flow across those land masses? But I think actually I find the particularities of which group did what where a bit tedious. At least if the writing/editing is on par with this book.

But I gave it a shot!