7/5/2023 0 Comments Rebecca wragg sykes booksKindred does for Neanderthals what Sapiens did for us, revealing a deeper, more nuanced story where humanity itself is our ancient, shared inheritance. Rebecca Wragg Sykes is an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool, and author of the award-winning Kindred: Neanderthal Life. Kindred Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art Publishers Synopsis Book information Sign up to receive wonderful books and offers in your inbox Cookie. Planning, co-operation, altruism, craftsmanship, aesthetic sense, imagination, perhaps even a desire for transcendence beyond mortality. Much of what defines us was also in Neanderthals, and their DNA is still inside us. Rebecca Wragg-Sykess fact-packed but highly readable book puts us right with a superbly authoritative guided tour of much new evidence. She reveals them to be curious, clever connoisseurs of their world, technologically inventive and ecologically adaptable.Ībove all, they were successful survivors for more than 300,000 years, during times of massive climatic upheaval. Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins.Rebecca Wragg Sykes uses her experience at the cutting-edge of Palaeolithic research to share our new understanding of Neanderthals, shoving aside cliches of rag-clad brutes in an icy wasteland. Kindred is the definitive guide to the Neanderthals.
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