![]() The talk will conclude by reflecting on evidence from Britain, and recent ideas around the eventual disappearance of Neanderthals.ĭr. Far from confined and unvarying, the overall impression of Neanderthal minds is that they were focused on quality and efficiency, yet also flexible and creative. All this has revolutionised thinking about their lives, including evidence for technologies, complex cognition and even emergent materially-focused aesthetic behaviours together with diverse ways of dealing with the dead. This lecture will explore how understanding of Neanderthals has evolved over more than 160 years, in a context of improved dating and palaeoclimatic frameworks, and in particular, huge advances in science and archaeology over the past three or four decades. ![]() The Neanderthals occupy a singularly seminal place within human origins, the first hominin to be discovered, the closest to us in evolutionary terms, and with the richest array of evidence to understand their lives. ![]()
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