Relatives: Life, love, art and death of Neanderthals

In the 21st century, many still consider Neanderthals a backward, not capable of developing the branch of the human race. The British archaeologist Rebecca Ragg Sykes makes significant efforts to prove the injustice and fallacy of this opinion. Based, first of all, on the latest studies of archaeologists, anthropologists and paleogenetics, she draws the Neanderthal world of the western part of Eurasia, lively and quite progressive for her time. However, the goal of Cyix is ​​not only to demonstrate the achievements of Neanderthals in technology and culture. She wants to arouse empathy in readers, throughout the book tirelessly recalling: the way of thinking, logic and feelings Neanderthals are more like us than it seems