They were skilled hunters and accomplished tool-makers. In the book, she describes the evidence for a species that persisted longer than modern humans have existed. Well, that's a kind of thinking that we should be very suspicious of for all sorts of reasons in the 21st century.īut in any case, our clichéd picture of the Neanderthals as brutish, rag-clad primitives is just plain wrong.Īnd all the reasons why it's wrong are described in a new book by archeologist and writer Rebecca Wragg Sykes, called Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art. But there used to be several. The last of our human cousins, the Neanderthals, died out roughly 40 thousand years ago.Īnd we tend to think of that extinction as a failure - reflecting their inferiority, and our superiority and inevitability. There's only one species of humans in the world right now.
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