"Madison Yazoo Leake, of the bombed-out, radiation-ridden twenty-first century, wanted to go back in time to stop World War III before it began. When he stepped through the time portal, he thought he was entering Louisiana in the 1930s. Instead, he found himself in a world where Arabs had explored America, Christianity and the Roman Empire had never existed, and Aztecs performed human sacrifices near the Mississippi as wooly mammoths roamed nearby.

"One hundred and forty people, plus equipment, were due to follow him They didn't appear. And Leake began to wonder if he could ever go back..." [jacket blurb, UK hbk, 1989]

"Them Bones combines time travel, ethnography, archaeological research, and vivid alternative history in a complex but plainly told narrative that is simultaneously funny and poignant." --Michael Bishop.