Archaeologists

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Interviews with archaeologists

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Richard Herring & Rebecca Wragg Sykes 20 Jan 2023 • EN

RHLSTP Book Club 39 - Rebecca Wragg Sykes

RHLSTP Book Club 39 - Kindred. Richard talks to archaeologist and writer Rebecca Wragg Sykes about her all encompassing, lyrical and fascinating book, Kindred. They chat about how and when Neanderthal were discovered, the triumph of archaeology that allows us to know about their life, loves and deaths, whether a line w

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Leonard Lopate & Rebecca Wragg Sykes 23 Jun 2022 • EN

Rebecca Wragg Sykes on Kindred

Rebecca Wragg Sykes uses her experience at the cutting-edge of Palaeolithic research to share our new understanding of Neanderthals, shoving aside clichés of rag-clad brutes in an icy wasteland. She reveals them to be curious, clever connoisseurs of their world, technologically inventive and ecologically adaptable. Abo

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Alan Alda & Rebecca Wragg Sykes 16 Feb 2021 • EN

Rebecca Wragg Sykes – Our Neanderthal Kin

They walk among us. Some percentage of the genes of many modern humans have been handed down to us from Neanderthals. Alan, who has about 2% of those genes, is more than a little excited to hear from expert Rebecca Wragg Sykes how Neanderthals looked, lived and loved. Her new book is Kindred. Support the show: https://

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Tom Papa & Robert Kelly 04 Oct 2022 • EN

Episode 125 - Robert Kelly Returns

Robert Kelly is back as a lean, mean fighting machine.

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Leonard Lopate & Rebecca Wragg Sykes 14 Dec 2020 • EN

Rebecca Wragg Sykes on Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art

(12/14/20)Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have only gained importance in most anthropologists’ perception of early humans. In her new book Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art, Dr. Rebecca Wragg Sykes shoves aside clichés of rag-clad brutes in an icy wasteland to reveal curious, cl

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Sam and Emma host David Wengrow, Professor of Comparative Archaeology at University College London, to discuss his recent book The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity that he co-authored with David Graeber. They begin by clarifying what the old history was, which Professor Wengrow describes the “broad sweep o

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