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Who was really Neanderthal? A thick brute as we have long portrayed him, a distant cousin adorned with necklaces of shells and feathers as we have imagined him more recently? Or a being endowed with astonishing creativity whose mystery of disappearance 42,000 years ago has still not been solved?
How long did Neanderthal rub shoulders with Homo Sapiens before it replaced him? After 30 years of travels, meetings, excavations around the world, from the Arctic Circle to Mongolia, from the Sahel to Anatolia via the Rhone Valley in France, our Alex Reed sweeps away the clichés and wonders: why are we unable to conceive of a humanity other than our own?
With Ludovic SlimakCNRS researcher, specialist in Neanderthal societies for his book Neanderthal Nude published by Odile Jacob.
He just discovered that Homo Sapiens Was In Europe Earlier Than We Thought.
