They ranged across vast tracts of tundra and steppe, but also stalked in dappled forests and waded in the Mediterranean Sea. She reveals them to be curious, clever connoisseurs of their world, technologically inventive and ecologically adaptable. In Kindred, 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. Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins. To find out more about subscribing to the magazine, click here.Kindred is the definitive guide to the Neanderthals.
Detailed discussion of excavated remains makes this a deeply personal (and frequently poignant) account: a fascinating family reunion. 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. 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 Must be the most-familiar members of our extended family tree.
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