You’ll hear in this week NRC Today our series Wild centuries, the beginning. One of the narrative series we made this year: perfect for the days around Christmas.
It’s been 40,000 years. Young Doi comes face to face with his distant family, a group of dancing Neanderthals. Will they accept him?
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For this episode, this literature was used, among other things:
Francesca Romagnoli ea (eds) ‘Updating Neanderthals. Understanding Behavioral Complexity in the Late Middle Palaeolithic’, Academic Press 2022
Mateja Hajdinjak ea’Initial Upper Palaeolithic humans in Europe had recent Neanderthal ancestry in Nature April 8, 2021.
Rebecca Wragg Sykes. “Kindred. Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art’, Bloomsbury 2021
Rudolf Botha. ‘Neanderthal Language. Demystifying the Linguistic Powers of our Extinct Cousins’, Cambridge University Press 2020
Katerina Harvati. ‘Paleoanthropology of the Balkans and Anatolia. Human Evolution and its Context’, Springer Press 2016
Qiaomei Fu and others ‘An early modern human from Romania with a recent Neanderthal ancestor’ in Nature, August 13, 2015.
Wil Roebroeks and Paola Villa ‘Neandertal Demise: An Archaeological Analysis of the Modern Human Superiority Complex’ in PLOS One, April 30, 2014.
João Zilhao and others ‘The Peştera cu Oase People. Europe’s Earliest Modern Humans’ in K. Boyle ed (eds) Rethinking the Human Revolution, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2007.
- Text and presentation:
- Hendrik Spiering
- Editing and direction:
- Mirjam van Zuidam
- Music, editing and mixing:
- Rufus van Baardwijk
- Image:
- Jeen Berting
- Design:
- Yannick Mortier
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