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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Written by Rebecca Wragg Sykes

Painting of a Neanderthal person with long dark hair wrapped in fur. One hand is resting on their chest, the other is raised above their head.

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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

A prehistoric family in a cave, huddled around a fire, wearing animal furs, with children and an elderly member present.

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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