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Kindred
Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
Taschenbuch von Rebecca Wragg Sykes
Sprache: Englisch

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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 Harari
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 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.
** 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 Harari
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 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.
Über den Autor
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.

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Zusammenfassung
Uses a thematic rather than chronological approach to tell the real and fascinating story of the Neanderthals.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Note on Names
Introduction
Chapter 1: The First Face
Chapter 2: The River Fells the Tree
Chapter 3: Bodies Growing
Chapter 4: Bodies Living
Chapter 5: Ice and Fire
Chapter 6: The Rocks Remain
Chapter 7: Material World
Chapter 8: Eat and Live
Chapter 9: Chez Neanderthal
Chapter 10: Into the Land
Chapter 11: Beautiful Things
Chapter 12: Minds Inside
Chapter 13: Many Ways to Die
Chapter 14: Time Travellers in the Blood
Chapter 15: Denouements
Chapter 16: Immortal Beloved
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Jahrhundert: Vor- & Frühgeschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 416 S.
black and white illustrations throughout and an 8-page colour section
ISBN-13: 9781472937476
ISBN-10: 1472937473
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wragg Sykes, Rebecca
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestraße 122 a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 195 x 127 x 29 mm
Von/Mit: Rebecca Wragg Sykes
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.08.2021
Gewicht: 0,3 kg
Artikel-ID: 119477734
Über den Autor
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.

[...] / [...]
Zusammenfassung
Uses a thematic rather than chronological approach to tell the real and fascinating story of the Neanderthals.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Note on Names
Introduction
Chapter 1: The First Face
Chapter 2: The River Fells the Tree
Chapter 3: Bodies Growing
Chapter 4: Bodies Living
Chapter 5: Ice and Fire
Chapter 6: The Rocks Remain
Chapter 7: Material World
Chapter 8: Eat and Live
Chapter 9: Chez Neanderthal
Chapter 10: Into the Land
Chapter 11: Beautiful Things
Chapter 12: Minds Inside
Chapter 13: Many Ways to Die
Chapter 14: Time Travellers in the Blood
Chapter 15: Denouements
Chapter 16: Immortal Beloved
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Jahrhundert: Vor- & Frühgeschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 416 S.
black and white illustrations throughout and an 8-page colour section
ISBN-13: 9781472937476
ISBN-10: 1472937473
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wragg Sykes, Rebecca
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestraße 122 a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 195 x 127 x 29 mm
Von/Mit: Rebecca Wragg Sykes
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.08.2021
Gewicht: 0,3 kg
Artikel-ID: 119477734
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