The Naked Neanderthal

Ludovic Slimak's The Naked Neanderthal is a PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR that explores the minds of Neanderthals and challenges our understanding of deep history. He argues that Neanderthals should be understood on their own terms, with their own history, rituals, customs, and intelligence.

Format: Hardback
Length: 208 pages
Publication date: 21 September 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

In this acclaimed bestseller, an explorer and Neanderthal hunter takes us on a thrilling journey of discovery. With the style of a poet and the imagination of a philosopher, Ludovic Slimak probes the minds of Neanderthals. . .

This fun and provocative book is a reminder that we still have a lot to learn about biological intelligence. Steve Brusatte, What if we have completely misunderstood who the Neanderthals truly were? For over a century, we saw them as inferior to Homo Sapiens. Today, Neanderthals are seen as fully human, different from us only because of their distant cultural traditions. But does the truth lie somewhere else entirely? Neanderthal hunter and paleoanthropologist Ludovic Slimak understands these enigmatic creatures like no one else after studying them for three decades. Taking us on a fascinating archaeological investigation from the Arctic Circle to the deep Mediterranean forests, he traces their steps, deciphering their stories through every single detail they left behind. In this stunning, bold book, he argues that Neanderthals should be understood on their own terms. They had their own history, their own rituals, their own customs. Their own intelligence. A remarkable intelligence, for sure, but an intelligence that may have been very different from ours - although it can still teach us much about ourselves. A thought-provoking detective story, written with wit and verve, The Naked Neanderthal shifts our understanding of deep history - and in the process reveals just how much we have yet to learn.

Weight: 322g
Dimension: 224 x 141 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780241617663