The Surprisingly Rich Emotional and Mental Lives of NeanderthalsConstant Wonder • Season 2022, Episode 776, Segment 1
Dec 8, 2020 • 53m
Neanderthals were so much more than the knuckle-dragging brutes popular history makes them out to be. Paleolithic archaeologist Rebecca Wragg Sykes presents a new narrative based on DNA and mounting archeological evidence about the rich lives, emotions, and experiences of these 125,000-year-old cousins of our species.
Guest: Rebecca Wragg Sykes, archaeologist and Honorary Fellow at the Universities of Liverpool and Bordeaux, and author of "Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art"