


Above all, they were successful survivors for more than 300,000 years, during times of massive climatic upheaval.Ĭhair of the judging panel, academic, critic and broadcaster Professor Shahidha Bari said: She reveals them to be curious, clever connoisseurs of their world, technologically inventive and ecologically adaptable. Rebecca Wragg Sykes uses her experience at the cutting-edge of Palaeolithic research to share our new understanding of Neanderthals, shoving aside clichés of rag-clad brutes in an icy wasteland. Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art (Bloomsbury) is a history of the Neanderthals. The Prize of £2,000, endowed by former PEN member Marjorie Hessell-Tiltman’s bequest, celebrates the best non-fiction on any historical subject. Retrieved December 15, 2021.English PEN announced today that Rebecca Wragg Sykes has been awarded the annual PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2021.

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