Philip Marsden

Is it possible that Neanderthals had a spiritual life?

Astonishing finds suggestive of shrine in a subterranean cave in the Aveyron continue to baffle anthropologists, says Rebecca Wragg Sykes

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issue 12 September 2020
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  • Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art

    Rebecca Wragg Sykes

    Bloomsbury Sigma, pp. 400, £20

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