Books by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
Rebecca Wragg Sykes is an archaeologist, author and public scholar. She is an Honorary Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge as well as Honorary Fellow at the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool.
“Kindred is an extraordinary book. It really captures the zeitgeist of what is changing in our views of human evolution. We have, for the last 150 years or more, had this idea of cavemen crawling out of the dark into our modern progressive era. These are not really the opinions that anthropologists hold today. That’s not how we see the past—as brutish, nasty Hobbesian lives. Kindred is about our nearest relatives, the Neanderthals—our kissing cousins, if you will. Kindred lyrically and poetically brings out the research that shows us that this was a human species that had a very similar existence to ours and was probably capable of all sorts of creative thoughts and things like that. It really reopens, in a very beautifully written way, the idea of what the past would have looked like when there was more than one human species wandering around, what other types of ways there are to be human. That’s my primary reason for choosing it, because it’s a fantastic, incredibly well-written book.” Read more...
The best books on Anthropology
Brenna Hassett, Anthropologist
Interviews with Rebecca Wragg Sykes
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The Inheritors
by William Golding, with a foreword by Ben Okri -
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The Clan of the Cave Bear
by Jean Auel -
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The Last Neanderthal
by Claire Cameron -
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The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature
by Ludovic Slimak and translated by David Watson -
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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.
Interviews where books by Rebecca Wragg Sykes 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.
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Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
by Rebecca Wragg Sykes -
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Evolution's Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins
by Peter Ungar -
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Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live
by Marlene Zuk -
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Tales Teeth Tell: Development, Evolution, Behavior
by Tanya M. Smith -
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Our Human Story
by Chris Stringer & Louise Humphrey
The best books on Anthropology, recommended by Brenna Hassett
The best books on Anthropology, recommended by Brenna Hassett
New techniques have uncovered an enormous amount of information about how humans evolved and new human species continue to pop up on a regular basis. Biological anthropologist Brenna Hassett, author of Growing Up Human, recommends books to learn more about our ancestors and how we became the human beings we are today.
