Swigart is to be congratulated for giving us a series of connected short stories that are both entertaining and educational. The book is accurately grounded in archaeological facts, and its individual stories are thoroughly believable. Its particular format should be emulated by all those wishing to blend fact and fiction, not just as entertainment but as education, too. * Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies
Rob Swigart has written a most remarkable and imaginative short story collection. It is remarkable for its enthralling, in-depth portrayal of the lives of humans from their emergence as distinct beings... Each of these stories is told, not only with an acute sense of informed historicity and scientific accuracy, but with engaging writing. Reading these stories was not only an evocative intellectual experience but a heartfelt emotional one as well. It is the work of a master storyteller. Swigart brings the stories so alive one feels a part of them-as if you, I, we, truly are...A magnificent and often extraordinary sequence of stories. * Jack B. Rochester, Jack.Boston.com
Mixed Harvest is an unexpected take on human origins and early human societies, blending deftly written short stories with brief nonfiction segments... Readers will leave with a strong emotional grounding in the anthropological and archaeological record, and a large number of informational and thematic touchpoints for understanding this history. * Joey Eschrich, Arizona State University
