Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
By Rebecca Wragg Sykes
Recommended on: 1st March 2021
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art, by Rebecca Wragg Sykes. We have to admit, like many a fellow Homo sapiens, we’re enamored of Neanderthals. So we were very excited to get our hands on this book. And indeed, Kindred did a great job of pointing out not only the surprising intelligence of Neanderthals and their cunning abilities with stone tools, but also of describing the enormous time spans involved in the Neanderthal sojourn in Europe and parts of Asia. We did notice that reviewers often observed that the book was “fact packed,” which can often be a bit of code to avoid unkindness. Sadly, after a while, the facts grew monotonous, while interpretation was often lacking. The lead up to why the Neanderthals vanished was something of a bust—although humans are a reasonable bet to being the culprits, at least in part, we instead hear of inbreeding and disease.
Kindred is an interesting read if you’re into the current nitty-gritty of Neanderthal anthropological findings. But if you’re looking for a more conclusive read, you may wish to wait a few more years until more definitive findings might come available.
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