"Like a conjurer channeling a reluctant genie generates a window into a strand of alternative human possibility" "Intriguing.A bold & magnificent attempt to resurrect our Neanderthal kin" If you read only one book about the Neanderthals, read this one" “Rebecca Wragg-Sykes's fact-packed but highly readable book puts us right with a superbly authoritative guided tour of much new evidence. "Important reading for anyone interested in humanity"īest Reviewed Science, Nature and Technology book of October 2020 synthesizing thousands of academic studies into a single accessible narrative" "A complete new story about Neanderthals. Wragg Sykes' project is to write about Neanderthals as an end in themselves, not as a failed version of humanity" "An expert and enthusiastic character witness for Neanderthals and their way of life" She is the creator of the blog The Rocks Remain."A combination of the scholarly and the writerly, combining dizzying amounts of information" Kindred won the 2021 PEN Hessell-Tiltman prize for history and was awarded Book of the Year by Current Archaeology, among other honors. Rebecca Wragg Sykes is an archaeologist and Honorary Fellow in the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool. Her book sheds new light on where they lived, what they ate, and the increasingly complex Neanderthal culture that researchers have discovered. In her bestselling book Kindred-now out in paperback-Neanderthal expert Rebecca Wragg Sykes shoves aside the cliché of the shivering ragged figure in an icy wasteland, and reveals the Neanderthal you don’t know, our ancestor who lived across vast and diverse tracts of Eurasia and survived through hundreds of thousands of years of massive climate change. Who was this hominem who seems so far from us, yet somehow near-as if the DNA many of us carry of this vanished species is signaling to our unconscious that we are kin? Many have long been fascinated by Neanderthals, even before we discovered that many people contain Neanderthal DNA. It really helps to get the word out about our show. Like us on Facebook at Writers Voice with Francesca Rheannon, on Instagram or find us on twitter Love Writer’s Voice? Please rate us on your podcast app.
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Her book sheds new light on the complex culture of our Neanderthal ancestors. We talk with Rebecca Wragg Sykes about her bestselling book, Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art.
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