The Iceman Inheritance: Prehistoric Sources of Western Man's Racism, Sexism and Aggression

Notwithstanding his admission of the general scientific bankruptcy of the concept of race as it is usually used, the author of this book accepts that humans can be more or less accurately anthropologically grouped in a way that corresponds to race, based on prehistoric ancestry, and posits that one such "race," Caucasoids, are unique in their aggressiveness due to their Neanderthal ancestry. Bradley's thesis is that Neanderthal "psychobiological" adaptations to a glacial environment underpin what he argues are unique levels of misogyny, racism, warmongering, and perennially escalating, environmentally dangerous, technological "progress."I was biased towards this book because of the outrageousness of it's thesis, but I was also somewhat disappointed in both the quality and quantity of anthropological evidence. For example, the author's argument for the evolution of Caucasoid misogyny rests in part on the millennia of mutual mistrust between the sexes arising from extreme Neanderthal sexual dimorphism; males and females could barely recognize one another as belonging to the same species. Part of this dimorphism is established by reasoning from the large size of Neanderthal infant crania to the extremely rotund Neanderthal female body that supposedly would have been necessary to survive birthing such creatures; however, the author admits that only two such skulls, one badly damaged, had been found at the time of writing. To his credit, the author admits that his entire argument is lacking in conclusiveness early in the book.Bradley also traces Caucasoid behavioral inheritance with insightful psychological analysis, but this is necessarily of an even more dubious variety than psychology normally suffers, being that the mind under study is that of a long-extinct species. He invokes a concept called The Chronos Complex to show that a natural pre-historic psychosocial development (recognizance of the past-present-future continuity of life) mixed with maladaptive Neanderthal territoriality projected into the temporal dimension has resulted in Caucasoid societies that are recklessly determined to out-do their ancestors and poised to obliterate the future with their dangerous technologies.The author also puts forth a fascinating comparison of Western and non-Western cultural elements to illustrate Caucasoid obsession with sex and taming nature with technology. I loved the discussion of sexual mores in Ancient Egypt and China, but I would have preferred a more cursory examination of a larger number of cultural elements, rather than the detailed look at only a few.Overall, the book was refreshingly unique and terribly thought-provoking, but the discussion of current events and subsequent warnings to check the destructive actions of Western civilization were more practical and compelling than the evidence used to explicate their genesis. The discussion of the various argument points was somewhat disorganized and uneven (some points seemed long-winded), and I couldn't see that the author ever explicitly explained why Neanderthal's were so aggressive in the first place. Also, the content in the chapter entitled "The Concept of Race" was too tangential to warrant the chapter length.

I've read this book about 20 years ago and it still applies to the white supremacy of today. People who moan, whine, and complain about this book and the author need to study the research of their racial insecurities.This author is white and even his 5 year old son at the time of Bradley's book Dawn Voyage about 20 years ago proves time and time again that his son can think logically.

The White race, invades countries, steals land, steals resources, massacres indigenous (non-white) people, rapes non-white men, women and children in mass, sells their own children (born out of rape) into slavery, enslaves people simply for being non-white (no other reason is necessary), castrates people, cuts off the fingers and ears of slaves for trying to read, slits the noses of slaves as punish as well or just because they feel like it, stages slave orgies for their entertainment, lynches and/or burns alive Black men, circulates postcards of white people posing around the lynched and/or burned body of the Black man, makes an industry out of pornography, makes violent films for over 100 hundred years, makes toy weapons of all kinds for their children to play with, makes violent games for their children to play with, terrorizes Blacks with police violence, creates countless terrorist organizations solely devoted to terrorizing non-white people, canonizes cinematic killers (Leatherface, Freddy Kruger, Michael Myers), gives awards to actors for playing violent psychopaths (Joe Pesci, Anthony Hopkins, Heath Ledger, Javier Bardem) and yet they claims Black people are the violent ones who are responsible for all of society's problems. Mistreating non-whites is the basis of white culture and defending what they've gained from their mistreatment of us is their main priority in life. This book attempts to give some scientific analysis of their sadistic nature, but does get to feeling like a text book after a while. I was hoping this book would have a more personal touch and give the reader some idea how white people think, but there is very little of that. The White race is a very secretive race and it's very hard to find works where they are actually being honest about their racist thoughts and actions. In contrast, it is very easy to find books with Black people writing honestly about racism and how it affects them in their lives. Living under the tyranny of whites for so long it's only natural for people to have adopted the values of their oppressors, but that doesn't stop it from being their values. If our natures were truly all truly the same than American slavery never would have happened, Africans would have run Whites off the continent or been wiped out themselves. The savagery and sexual perversions of the White race has infected us all and more books need to be written examining it honestly.

This book needs to be in Kindel and audio book. I would like to have it in an audio version.

I highly recommend this book to everyone especially, People Rich In Colour!

It will give you a roadmap on what White Culture is today and will be in the future......Read it for yourself and get yourself protected and armed.

Very good book! Very informative. Should be required for schools.

I found this book difficult to understand although I have an above average IQ, enjoy reading tremonously, I found myself looking up definitions of some words to understand the content meaning which caused me to put the book down and come back later to continue. I was like while reading "what did I just read because I could not get the understanding of want I just read, had to repeat the reading."It' s going to take me a minute to finish this book.

He makes suggestions not facts.

Interesting and very informative read, into a very sensitive subject. A must have read, for all races.

Great read

I have not yet read the book, but what is there to comment when European Power has never documented our history, the slightest effort to do so shouldn't be at a my will to comment or critic.Master Teacher.Your work is great

Very informative , and written in a way that most people will understand. The author appears to be trying to be as objective as he canin relation to the subject matter. The book * The Iceman Inheritance" is one that should be read by any one that truly wishes to make some positive contribution to a very emotive subject.