{"id":4176,"date":"2023-03-19T09:19:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T09:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/montylitfest.com\/?page_id=4176"},"modified":"2023-04-20T07:05:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T07:05:56","slug":"friday-7pm-copy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/montylitfest.com\/?page_id=4176","title":{"rendered":"2023 Friday – 7pm Rebecca Wragg Sykes"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Kindred:<\/span> Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art<\/span><\/strong><\/p>

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Date: Friday 9th June 2023<\/strong><\/p>

Venue: Montgomery Town Hall<\/strong><\/p>

Time: 7.00-7.45pm<\/strong><\/p>

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What do we think about when we think of our Neanderthal ancestors?\u00a0Chances are we revert to the stereotype of the brutish figure in an icy wasteland.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Not so, says Rebecca Wragg Sykes. Based on her first-hand experience of cutting-edge Palaeolithic research, her<\/span>\u00a0award-winning book, Kindred,<\/em> sets the story straight, revealing the Neanderthals to be curious, clever connoisseurs of their world, technologically inventive and ecologically adaptive.\u00a0Find out why the Neanderthals were so successful, survivors of over 300,000 years of massive climate change, and why we need to celebrate them as our closest relatives, whose DNA is still inside us.\u00a0<\/p>

We’ll also be talking to Rebecca about her new book, Matriarcha: Prehistory Reimagined<\/i>,\u00a0<\/em>which re-examines our “hominin history” through the female line and is scheduled for publication in 2025.\u00a0<\/p>

Rebecca Wragg Sykes<\/strong>\u00a0is an archaeologist, author and Honorary Fellow in the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool. Alongside her academic expertise, Rebecca has earned a reputation for exceptional public communication, with her writing featuring in\u00a0<\/span>The New York Times, The Times, The Guardian, Aeon<\/em>\u00a0and elsewhere. She is a popular speaker, appearing on programmes for\u00a0BBC\u00a0Radio 3 and 4 such as\u00a0<\/span>Front Row, Start The Week<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>The Infinite Monkey Cage<\/em>, as well as numerous podcasts.\u00a0Rebecca is also co-founder of the influential Trowelblazers project, which highlights women archaeologists, paleontologists and geologists through innovative outreach and collaboration.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u00a0 Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art with Rebecca Wragg Sykes Date: Friday 9th June 2023 Venue: Montgomery Town Hall Time: 7.00-7.45pm Tickets: \u00a38.00 What do we think about when we think of our Neanderthal ancestors?\u00a0Chances are we revert to the stereotype of the brutish figure in an icy wasteland.\u00a0 Not so, says Rebecca …<\/p>\n

2023 Friday – 7pm Rebecca Wragg Sykes<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4176","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nMonty Lit Fest 2023: Kindred with Rebecca Wragg Sykes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A chance to re-think what we know about our Neanderthal ancestors with archaeologist, Rebecca Wragg Sykes.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/montylitfest.com\/?page_id=4176\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2023 Friday - 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