Neanderthals Among Us The Making of a Prehistoric Human

Why are we so obsessed with a group of archaic humans who disappeared 40,000 years ago? Neanderthals Among Us brings together an accessible history of scientific debates over human origins and wide-ranging representations of race, gender and prehistory in popular culture to tell a story of our endless fascination with Neanderthals - ever since their discovery in 1856.

 

Drawing on a wide range of sources - including the medieval Wild Man figure, nineteenth-century racial science, museum reconstructions, horror films, science fiction, the rise and fall of the Neanderthal insult, and genetic ancestry testing - Peter Sahlins' original and compelling history of Neanderthals in the modern world makes us rethink what it means to be human - and different.

Info autore

Peter Sahlins is Professor of History Emeritus at University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of 1668: The Year of the Animal in France. He lives in France.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Sahlins Peter
• Editore: Oneworld Publications
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 20.08.2026
• EAN: 9781836432548
• ISBN: 978-1-83643-254-8
• Numero di pagine: 432
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 15.3 x 23.4 cm
• Categorie: prehistory, HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, SCIENCE / Paleontology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Physical, Early Man, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Palaeontology, Prehistoric archaeology, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Stone Age: Mesolithic period, Stone Age, Evolutionary anthropology / Human evolution, Stone Age: Palaeolithic period, Prehistoric styles