To find out more about subscribing to the magazine, click here. Detailed discussion of excavated remains makes this a deeply personal (and frequently poignant) account: a fascinating family reunion. She is co-founder of the Trowelblazers website, celebrating women archaeologists, palaeontologists and geologists through the ages, and the author of Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art.

Sweeping across some 400,000 years of history, and ranging from Wales to the borders of China, we learn about all aspects of Neanderthal life and death, from their tools and weapons to their homes and burials what they ate how they moved their physical appearance how they cared for the old and injured and the wider world they inhabited. REBECCA WRAGG SYKES is a palaeolithic archaeologist and honorary fellow at the University of Liverpool, specialising in Neanderthals. Into c.400 pages, full of scientific detailīut with a lightness of touch that brings prehistoric populations to life. Much-more-recent past – there is a wide-ranging wealth of information packed Turn of phrase, deftly conjuring scenes from both the deeply distant and In this absorbing new book, Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes explores theĮvolution of our understanding of these ‘truly A-list’ hominins, as well as discussing Perceptions of what it meant to be human, public fascination has endured Since the firstĭiscoveries of their bones in the 1850s (a decade that also saw the publication Kindred is a beautifully written exploration of our fast-developing understanding of Neanderthals and their culture and a compelling insight into how modern science is revealing the secrets of an extinct species who, for 350 thousand years before Homo Sapiens became dominant, inhabited a world as wide and rich as the Roman Empire. Must be the most-familiar members of our extended family tree.

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