A bone from a dry sea /
Peter Dickinson.
- New York, N.Y. : Delacorte Press, 1993.
- 199 p. ; 21 cm.
"This work was first published in Great Britain in 1992 by Victor Gollancz Ltd."--Verso T.p.
In two parallel stories, an intelligent female member of a prehistoric tribe becomes instrumental in advancing the lot of her people, and the daughter of a paleontologist is visiting him on a dig in Africa when important fossil remains are discovered.