Above all, they were successful: survivors of over 300,000 years of massive climate change.Īt a time when our species has never faced greater threats, we're obsessed with what makes us special. They ranged across vast tracts of tundra and steppe, but also stalked in dappled forests and waded in the Mediterranean Sea. She reveals the Neanderthals as curious, clever connoisseurs of their world, technologically inventive and ecologically adaptable. In Kindred, Rebecca Wragg Sykes uses her first-hand experience at the cutting-edge of Palaeolithic research to share this knowledge, shoving aside clichés of rag-clad brutes in an icy wasteland. While 21st century scientific understanding of Neanderthals is complex and fascinating, much remains inaccessible outside the specialist literature. Since their discovery over 160 years ago, they've metamorphosed from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins. Kindred is the definitive guide to the Neanderthals.
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