Naked Neanderthal : a new understanding of the human creature / Ludovic Slimak.
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TextPublisher: New York : Pegasus Books, 2024Copyright date: ©2024Edition: First Pegasus Books cloth editionDescription: 191 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
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- 9781639366163
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A riveting scientific journey exploring the enigma of the Neanderthal and the species' unique form of intelligence.
What do we really know about our cousins, the Neanderthals?
For over a century we saw Neanderthals as inferior to Homo Sapiens. More recently, the pendulum swung the other way and they are generally seen as our relatives: not quite human, but similar enough, and still not equal. Now, thanks to an ongoing revolution in paleoanthropology in which he has played a key part, Ludovic Slimak shows us that they are something altogether different -- and they should be understood on their own terms rather than by comparing them to ourselves. As he reveals in this stunning book, the Neanderthals had their own history, their own rituals, their own customs. Their own intelligence, very different from ours.
Slimak has travelled around the world for the past thirty years to uncover who the Neanderthals really were. A modern-day Indiana Jones, he takes us on a fascinating archaeological investigation: from the Arctic Circle to the deep Mediterranean forests, he traces the steps of these enigmatic creatures, working to decipher their real stories through every single detail they left behind.
A thought-provoking adventure story, written with wit and verve, The Naked Neanderthal shifts our understanding of deep history -- and in the process reveals just how much we have yet to learn.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-191).
1. Neanderthal in our heart and soul -- 2. A boreal odyssey -- 3. Cannibals in the forest -- 4. Rituals and symbols -- 5. Neanderthal aesthetics -- 6. Understanding the human creature.
"For over a century we saw Neanderthals as inferior to Homo Sapiens. More recently, the pendulum swung the other way and they are generally seen as our relatives: not quite human, but similar enough, and still not equal. Now, thanks to an ongoing revolution in paleoanthropology in which he has played a key part, Ludovic Slimak shows us that they are something altogether different--and they should be understood on their own terms rather than by comparing them to ourselves. As he reveals in this stunning book, the Neanderthals had their own history, their own rituals, their own customs. Their own intelligence, very different from ours." -- Provided by publisher.