Rebecca Wragg Sykes
Auteur van Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
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These rock carvings are sometimes thought to have been designed and created by shamans, sort of rabbis of the land, individuals gifted with an insight or possibly direct connection with the spirit kingdom.
When Europeans conquered these lands, much of the ethos that managed these lands prior to the European conquest was lost.
In its place we have shopping malls, “social” media, and CO2-belching roadways. They are some of the fruit of progress and might cause a thinking person to reflect differently on so-called primitive cultures.
Since Neanderthals began rising out of the mist of our primordial past, they too faced this stigma of a primitiveness that prevented us from appreciating their stay on this planet hundreds of thousands of years before their stay was done.
This book brings the research on Neanderthal up to date, and so much good work has accelerated our appreciation of where this species stands in the story of homo sapiens. And with gene-mapping technology, the story gets even more interesting.
We don’t know what Neanderthals thought, but we now see them in light of their innovations, survival skills, and social organization. But also in light of how climate and geological change may have influenced them as well.… (meer)