To find out more about subscribing to the magazine, click here. Detailed discussion of excavated remains makes this a deeply personal (and frequently poignant) account: a fascinating family reunion. Rebecca Wragg Sykes uses her experience at the cutting-edge of Palaeolithic research to share our new understanding of Neanderthals, shoving aside clichs of. Sweeping across some 400,000 years of history, and ranging from Wales to the borders of China, we learn about all aspects of Neanderthal life and death, from their tools and weapons to their homes and burials what they ate how they moved their physical appearance how they cared for the old and injured and the wider world they inhabited. Into c.400 pages, full of scientific detailīut with a lightness of touch that brings prehistoric populations to life.

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