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Kindred Neanderthal Life Love Death and Art PDF -** 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.
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*WINNER OF 2021 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE*
REBECCA WRAGG SYKES has been fascinated by the vanished worlds of the Pleistocene ice ages
since childhood, and followed this interest through a scientific career researching the most enigmatic characters of all, the Neanderthals.
An archaeologist, author and Honorary Fellow at the University of Liverpool, her first book KINDRED: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art is a critically acclaimed and award-winning bestseller: a deep dive into the 21st century science and understanding of these ancient relatives.
Alongside her academic expertise and consultancy work, Rebecca has earned a reputation for exceptional public communication, with her writing featuring in The New York Times, The Times, The Guardian, Aeon and elsewhere. She is a popular speaker, appearing on numerous radio and podcast programmes for the BBC, NPR and many others.
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- Identification Number : B07YLYHBVF
- Publisher : Bloomsbury Sigma; 1st edition (August 20, 2020)
- Publication date : August 20, 2020
- Language : English
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For example, here’s how the author sets the stage re: the discovery of the first neanderthal bones in the 1850s.
“Everyone loves a good ‘how did you meet?’ story. The knotty tale of our entanglement with neanderthals is tousled by threads of intuition and perplexity: birthed by the Industrial Revolution, scored by wars, glittering with treasures lost and found. From forgotten meetings tens of millennia ago when we saw each other as human, to the comparatively recent study of these ancient kin, our infatuation is perennial. Impatient for hoarfrost and mammoth breath, it’s tempting to fire up a time machine and speed straight back into the Pleistocene. But we need to start in the midpoint of this grand and convoluted history, before we can clearly see a beginning, or an end.”
Grand and convoluted is right. I’m sure the subject is interesting, and apparently many other reviewers felt differently, but a whole book of sentences like this is way too much for me. I bought it a while ago and just got around to it now, otherwise I’d return it. Would recommend downloading the sample to see if it’s to your taste before diving in.”
The recent discovery of Neanderthal DNA existing in most humans is profound and exciting, but her portrayal of this type of science is that it is dangerous and has been done with evil intent…with much of its work being conducted “in the dark.” Way too opinionated, and not something I was expecting from an actual scientist. To me there is potential for medical breakthroughs and many other good things to come from genetic research, but she relegated any such significance or hope to the likes of discriminatory mistakes made in the early 20th century. It turns out, not every form of human has Neanderthal DNA, with percentages ranging from 3% to 0%. This could prove good news, bad or neither for any one of us. We just don’t know yet…let science breathe.”
(Neanderthals survived for more than a quarter of a million years in the coldest habitats any primates ever inhabited, and all people want to know is whether they have “Neanderthal DNA?” Give me a break. It’s like telling your friends you are a Mayflower descendant without knowing anything about the Plymouth Plantation.)
This book shows just how richly the archaeological and paleontological evidence brings Neanderthals to life (so to speak). Some of the “you are there” vignettes at the start of the chapters work, others not so much.
When I read books on a human evolution topic I know well, I ask myself, “Did this change your mind?” Kindred did. I had previously viewed Neanderthal “burials” and cannibalism-related modifications as either concealed homicides and/or “survival cannibalism.” Sykes has convinced me that there is something else going on. Much like Neanderthal grave goods that vary from burial to burial (no two are alike) these creatures were doing things to cadavers in ways that suggest something more than just eating and disposing of them.
In interest of full disclosure, I am a professional paleoanthropologist, archaeologist, and “expert” on Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens evolution. I do not know Ms. Sykes personally, or have any conflict of interest in writing this review. I spotted one minor (trivial, really) error of fact that I have shared with Dr. Sykes privately. That I spotted only one in a book packed with detailed information speaks well to this work’s quality.”
Along with the archaeological evidence discussion featured in each chapter, written at a level understandable to a lay person, there is a short scene setting the mood. Unlike the other reviewer, I found these fascinating and really open up your perspective on how they lived – not as lessor, but different.
With a few percent Neanderthal DNA of my own, I can now appreciate the legacy they leave me.”
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