![]() ![]() Rebecca Wraggs Sykes joins us Friday at 11 a.m. ![]() ![]() ![]() Because although Neanderthals lived 40,000 years ago, Rebecca says that the most glorious thing about them is that they belong to all of us, here and now. In her book, Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art, Rebecca examines both the history of these early people and the contemporary work scientists and archeologists have done over the past couple of hundred years to learn about them. Rebecca Wragg Sykes doesn’t profess to have the exact answer, but thanks to her work as an archaeologist, she knows Neanderthals were much more than most of us suppose. Rebecca Wragg Sykes is an Honorary Fellow at the Universities of Liverpool and Bordeaux. But who actually were our ancient relatives? For the first 40 years after their fossils were recognised, nobody knew whether or not Neanderthals had any culture. The pop-culture stereotype of a Neanderthal – even the word itself – conjures the image of a stumbling buffoon, dressed in a loincloth, banging some rocks together. Rebecca Wragg Sykes, author and Paleolithic archaeologist. ![]()
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