Their hunting and tool making skills permitted This book presents a thorough description of the current knowledge that has been developed about Neanderthals. If there's one core message that comes through this book, it is that Neanderthal's cognitive skills were equal to that of Homo sapiens. Any reader who begins this book with the smug impression that it's about an inferior branch of the human family will soon learn that Archaeologist and science writer Rebecca Wragg Sykes believes otherwise. This book presents a thorough description of the current knowledge that has been developed about Neanderthals. It is only by understanding them, that we can truly understand ourselves.more perhaps even a desire for transcendence beyond mortality. Planning, co-operation, altruism, craftsmanship, aesthetic sense, imagination. But, 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.Īt a time when our species has never faced greater threats, we’re obsessed with what makes us special.

She reveals them to be curious, clever connoisseurs of their world, technologically inventive and ecologically adaptable. In Kindred, 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. Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins.

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