Rebecca Wragg Sykes giving a talk entitled "Neanderthals - Exploring complex minds", on the Our Planet Stage, at New Scientist Live 2022
Rebecca Wragg Sykes is a British Paleolithic archaeologist, broadcaster, popular science writer and author who lives in Wales. She is interested in the Middle Palaeolithic, specifically in the lives of Neanderthals; and she is one of the founders of TrowelBlazers, a website set up to celebrate the lives of women in archaeology, palaeontology and geology. Wragg Sykes studied as an undergraduate at the University of Bristol, before gaining her BA in Archaeology in 2003, and MA in the Archaeology of Human Origins from the University of Southampton in 2004. Her doctoral thesis from the University of Sheffield, which examined evidence for late Neanderthals in Britain, was awarded in 2010.[1] Following her , Wragg Sykes was awarded a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship at Université de Bordeaux, working in the PACEA laboratory on Neanderthal and prehistoric sites in the Massif Central mountains. She is currently an Honorary Fellow in the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool, and chercheur bénévole (Honorary Fellow) at the Université de Bordeaux. Wragg Sykes has written for The Guardian,[4] Scientific American[5] and Aeon,[6] and appeared on history and science programmes for BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4. In 2020, Wragg Sykes published Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art which won the 2021 Current Archaeology Book of the Year Award,the 2021 Hessel-Tiltman History Prize, and has been favourably reviewed by Current Archaeology, London Review of Books, Nature, The Guardian and The New York Times; reviews have been published in other media outlets as well. Yuval Noah Harari, author of the bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, thought Wragg Sykes had done "a remarkable job synthesizing thousands of academic studies into a single accessible narrative".
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