![]() ![]() Above all, they were successful survivors for more than 300,000 years, during times of massive climatic upheaval.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 them to be curious, clever connoisseurs of their world, technologically inventive and ecologically adaptable. In Kindred, 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. Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins. Kindred is the definitive guide to the Neanderthals. Product Dimensions : 24.1 x 3.8 x 16.2 cm Image: The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London Recreation in the Natural History Museum, London. 'Kindred: Neanderthal life, love, death and art' by Rebecca Wragg Sykes. ![]()
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