Kindred

Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art

AvRebecca Wragg Sykes

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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** WINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE 2021 **'Beautiful, evocative, authoritative.' Professor Brian Cox'Important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in humanity.’ Yuval Noah HarariKindred is the definitive guide to the Neanderthals. 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 clichés of rag-clad brutes in an icy wasteland. She reveals them to be curious, clever connoisseurs of their world, technologically inventive and ecologically adaptable. Above all, they were successful survivors for more than 300,000 years, during times of massive climatic upheaval.Much of what defines us was also in Neanderthals, and their DNA is still inside us. Planning, co-operation, altruism, craftsmanship, aesthetic sense, imagination, perhaps even a desire for transcendence beyond mortality. Kindred does for Neanderthals what Sapiens did for us, revealing a deeper, more nuanced story where humanity itself is our ancient, shared inheritance.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-08-19
Mått:138 x 206 x 46 mm
Vikt:351 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Bloomsbury Sigma
Antal sidor:416
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781472937476
Utmärkelser:Winner of PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2021 (UK)

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Rebecca Wragg Sykes has been fascinated by the vanished worlds of the Pleistocene ice ages since childhood, and followed this interest through a career researching the most enigmatic characters of all, the Neanderthals. After a PhD on the last Neanderthals living in Britain, she was a Marie Curie Fellow at the PACEA laboratory, Université de Bordeaux, France, working on Neanderthal landscapes and territories in the Massif Central, south-east France.Her writing has featured in the Guardian, Aeon and Scientific American, and she has appeared on history and science programmes for BBC Radio 4.@LeMoustier / www.rebeccawraggsykes.com/

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Important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in humanity. - Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens

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A Note on NamesIntroductionChapter 1: The First Face Chapter 2: The River Fells the TreeChapter 3: Bodies GrowingChapter 4: Bodies LivingChapter 5: Ice and FireChapter 6: The Rocks RemainChapter 7: Material WorldChapter 8: Eat and LiveChapter 9: Chez NeanderthalChapter 10: Into the LandChapter 11: Beautiful ThingsChapter 12: Minds InsideChapter 13: Many Ways to DieChapter 14: Time Travellers in the BloodChapter 15: DenouementsChapter 16: Immortal Beloved Epilogue Acknowledgements Index