Įventbrite will email you a confirmation immediately after purchase with instructions on how to access the recording of the event and the other material included with your ticket.Rebecca Wragg Sykes is a British archaeologist, expert on the Middle Paleolithic, and popular science writer. Access to the recording of the event will be available until. However, if you are attending the event in a professional capacity you may be interested to know that this event is accredited by the CPD Certification Service and CPD certificates are available to attendees on request by contacting ticket will give you access to a recording of the event which originally took place on Thursday and lasts for approximately one hour. This event is suitable for anyone with an interest in the subjects under discussion or a more general scientific interest. She has PhD in experimental high-energy physics. Previously she ran the New Scientist features desk and specialised in writing and editing features about the latest ideas in physics, astronomy and mathematics. The event will be hosted by Valerie Jamieson, New Scientist Events’ creative director and host of a programme of evening lectures, masterclasses and New Scientist Live. Rebecca’s first book Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love Death and Art will be published August 2020 with Bloomsbury Sigma. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at University of Bordeaux on prehistoric landscapes in the Massif Central mountains, she diversified outside scientific research to focus on her creative passion for writing and science communication. Her academic career includes a synthesis of the last Neanderthals in Britain, and exploring the cognitive aspects of their technologies. – Exclusive access to an additional 40-minute lecture filmed at our Instant Expert masterclassĭr Rebecca Wragg Sykes has always been drawn to the challenge of studying our deep human past, and is an expert in Palaeolithic archaeology and stone tool technology. – On-demand access to a recording of the event, lasting 60 minutes including Q&A with Rebecca Wragg Sykes. And in doing so, they stretched the everyday hominin world through time and space like never before. As stone artisans, carpenters and inventors of the first synthetic material, Neanderthals pioneered new technologies.

Far from confined and unvarying, Neanderthal minds were focused on quality and efficiency, yet also flexible and creative. In this talk, Rebecca Wragg Sykes shows how advances in archaeological methods over the last three decades have revealed a very different picture. Following the discovery of their stone tools, assumptions of lesser cognitive abilities still dominated for nearly a century. Rebecca Wragg Sykes, author and Paleolithic archaeologistįor the first 40 years after their fossils were recognised, nobody knew whether or not Neanderthals had any culture.

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