Books by Juan Luis Arsuaga
“This book is the product of literal dialogues between a hugely well-respected Spanish novelist and writer, Juan José Millás, and a hugely well-respected Spanish paleoanthropologist, Juan Luis Arsuaga, although it’s actually written by Millás. It is a very beautiful, affectionate, funny exploration of his own discoveries, as he talks to this paleoanthropologist, about what it means to be an evolved hominin. Also, it’s about the paleoanthropologist and his personal foibles and drives. It’s very Spanish—there are long conversations over meals with dishes of lovely beans and things like this, and they also go to visit ancient places, museums, even shops.” Read more...
Interviews where books by Juan Luis Arsuaga were recommended
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1
The Inheritors
by William Golding, with a foreword by Ben Okri -
2
The Clan of the Cave Bear
by Jean Auel -
3
The Last Neanderthal
by Claire Cameron -
4
The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature
by Ludovic Slimak and translated by David Watson -
5
The Seventh Son
by Sebastian Faulks
Five Books Imagining Neanderthals, recommended by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
Five Books Imagining Neanderthals, recommended by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
All archaeologists have to do some imagining because the data they work with is so partial and fragmentary, says Rebecca Wragg Sykes, author of Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art. She picks five books that help bring to life our closest relations, from a historical novel by a Nobel Prize-winning writer to a work of sci-fi about a hybrid Neanderthal child.
