Rebecca Wragg Sykes

Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art

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They split, join and pool in hollows until the waters overspill and reunite with deep channels cutting into the earth.

When histories and lineages merge with land, what happens to the bodies of the dead becomes one of the most powerful ways to invest a place with social potency.

Theirs was a dynamic dance with stone, waltzing to different rhythms that merged external factors with ideas, choices, foibles... As routinely as breathing, Neanderthals paid attention to their rock: selecting the choicest types, playing with novel ways to fragment, shifting concepts and skills as needed.

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