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94/100Author:
Rebecca Wragg Sykes
Publisher:
Bloomsbury
Date:
October 27, 2020
A British archaeologist debunks the cliché of the Neanderthal as a shivering ragged figure in an ice wasteland to tell the complex true story of this misunderstood human relative.
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In this deeply researched 'twenty-first-century portrait of the Neanderthals' from birth to burial and beyond, palaeolithic archaeologist Rebecca Wragg Sykes smashes stereotypes.
... intriguing.
In her book Kindred Rebecca Wragg Sykes aims to tell a complete new story about Neanderthals. She has done a remarkable job synthesizing thousands of academic studies into a single accessible narrative. From her pages emerge new Neanderthals that are very different from the cartoon figures of old. Kindred is important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in humanity..
... it seems we got Neanderthals all wrong. Rebecca Wragg Sykes’s fact-packed but highly readable book puts us right with a superbly authoritative guided tour of much new evidence.
