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Kindred : Neanderthal life, love, death and art
- Title
- Kindred : Neanderthal life, love, death and art / Rebecca Wragg Sykes.
- Author
- Wragg Sykes, Rebecca
- Publication
- London ; Oxford ; New York : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2020.
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Details
- Description
- 400 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Kindred 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 clicȟs 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"--Publisher's description.
- Series Statement
- Bloomsbury sigma ; Book Fifty-seven
- Uniform Title
- Bloomsbury sigma series ; bk. 57.
- Alternative Title
- Neanderthal life, love, death and art
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The first face -- The river fells the tree -- Bodies growing -- Bodies living -- Ice and fire -- The rocks remain -- Material world -- Eat and live -- Chez Neanderthal -- Into the land -- Beautiful things -- Minds inside -- Many ways to die -- Time travellers in the blood -- Denouements -- Immortal beloved -- Epilogue.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-3773
- ISBN
- 9781472937490
- 147293749X
- LCCN
- 2020418248
- OCLC
- 1152029546
- Author
- Wragg Sykes, Rebecca, author.
- Title
- Kindred : Neanderthal life, love, death and art / Rebecca Wragg Sykes.
- Publisher
- London ; Oxford ; New York : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2020.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Bloomsbury sigma ; Book Fifty-sevenBloomsbury sigma series ; bk. 57.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-3773