Rebecca Wragg Sykes
Palaeolithic archaeologist, writer, Wales
Rebecca Wragg Sykes is a Palaeolithic archaeologist and and honorary fellow at the University of Liverpool, specialising in Neanderthals. She is co-founder of the Trowelblazers website, celebrating women archaeologists, palaeontologists and geologists through the ages, and the author of Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art (2020). She lives in Wales.
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Human evolution
Sheanderthal
Not all Neanderthals were ‘cavemen’: half were women. What can archaeologists tell us about how they lived?
Rebecca Wragg Sykes
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Human evolution
The Neanderthal renaissance
Handprints on a cave wall, crumbs from a meal: the new science of Neanderthals radically recasts the meaning of humanity
Rebecca Wragg Sykes