In Kindred-Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art, Rebecca Wragg Sykes has brought together much of the latest research in archaeology, drawing on the increasingly sophisticated techniques used in excavation as well as advances in genetics. This has been swept aside by a far more nuanced understanding of who the Neanderthals were and where and how they lived. The popular portrait was one of thuggish, grunting cave-dwellers who died out with the advent of a superior species. Over the past few years scientific understanding of the Neanderthals-our nearest human relatives, or kindred as this book describes them-has been transformed.
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