![]() ![]() She wants you to be able to picture yourself there with them, knapping a tool from flint, hunting horses, or sleeping around the fire, tucked in furs. She wants to help you shed your idea of them as wholly other and instead see them as capable, thinking people worthy of our admiration. Sykes does not only want to bestow you with facts about Neanderthal migration or tool-making techniques. What sets Kindred apart from its predecessors is that it is told not through the lens of discoveries, names, and numbers, but of emotionally understanding who Neanderthals were. Published in the fall of 2020, Kindred is the latest in a long line of books about Neanderthals, but anyone who has read Kindred knows that it is not like the others. ![]() If a book can be “hot” in the world of paleoanthropology, then Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art is that book. ![]()
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