6/26/2023 0 Comments Rebecca sykes kindred![]() Moreover advances in science and archaeology over the past three or four decades have revolutionised thinking about their lives. Rather, we also see them living in warmer conditions, and landscapes from woodlands to coastal contexts. Improved dating and palaeoclimatic frameworks, together with recognition of their vast geographic range, mean that notions of Neanderthals as primarily arctic-adapted fall short. This lecture will situation Neanderthals within the history of human origins as a discipline, and bring things up to date by exploring how the picture of this ancient species, and their Pleistocene world, has evolved over more than 160 years. Moreover they enjoy a unique pop-culture familiarity, creating an enduring public appetite to know about them, only enhanced by the discovery a decade ago that Neanderthals persist today, albeit in genetic form, in all living people. They were the first hominin beyond ourselves to be discovered, are the closest to us in evolutionary terms and have by far the richest array of evidence with which to understand their lives. ![]() ![]() The Neanderthals occupy a singularly seminal place within human origins. LUNCHTIME LECTURE KINDRED: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes ![]()
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