![]() ![]() You’ll receive a link to join a couple of days before the event takes place and a reminder an hour before. This event is hosted live on Zoom Webinar. ![]() Joln Rebecca as she reveals a deeper, more nuanced story where humanity itself is our ancient, shared inheritance. Planning, co-operation, altruism, craftsmanship, aesthetic sense, imagination, perhaps even a desire for transcendence beyond mortality. Much of what defines us was also in Neanderthals, and their DNA is still inside us. Above all, they were successful survivors for more than 300,000 years, during times of massive climatic upheaval. Rebecca, author of Kindred, reveals them to be curious, clever connoisseurs of their world, technologically inventive and ecologically adaptable. Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins.Īrchaeologist Rebecca Wragg Sykes uses her experience at the cutting-edge of Palaeolithic research to share new understanding of Neanderthals, shoving aside clichés of rag-clad brutes in an icy wasteland. ![]()
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