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How to Think Like a Neandertal

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By: Thomas Wynn(Author), Frederick L Coolidge(Author)
210 pages, b/w photos, b/w illustrations
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There have been many books, movies, and even TV commercials featuring Neandertals – some serious, some comical. But what was it really like to be a Neandertal?

How were their lives similar to or different from ours? In How to Think Like a Neandertal, archaeologist Thomas Wynn and psychologist Frederick L. Coolidge team up to provide a brilliant account of the mental life of Neandertals, drawing on the most recent fossil and archaeological remains. Indeed, some Neandertal remains are not fossilized, allowing scientists to recover samples of their genes – one specimen had the gene for red hair and, more provocatively, all had a gene called FOXP2, which is thought to be related to speech. Given the differences between their faces and ours, their voices probably sounded a bit different, and the range of consonants and vowels they could generate might have been different. But they could talk, and they had a large (perhaps huge) vocabulary – words for places, routes, techniques, individuals, and emotions.

Extensive archaeological remains of stone tools and living sites (and, yes, they did often live in caves) indicate that Neandertals relied on complex technical procedures and spent most of their lives in small family groups. The authors sift the evidence that Neandertals had a symbolic culture – looking at their treatment of corpses, the use of fire, and possible body coloring – and conclude that they probably did not have a sense of the supernatural. How to Think Like a Neandertal explores the brutal nature of their lives, especially in northwestern Europe, where men and women with spears hunted together for mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses. They were pain tolerant, very likely taciturn, and not easy to excite. Wynn and Coolidge offer here an eye-opening portrait of Neandertals, painting a remarkable picture of these long-vanished people and providing insight, as they go along, into our own minds and culture.

Contents

Chapter 1 - True Grit
Chapter 2 - The Caveman Diet
Chapter 3 - Zen and the Art of Spear Making
Chapter 4 - A Focus on Family
Chapter 5 - It's Symbolic...
Chapter 6 - Speaking of Tongues
Chapter 7 - A Neandertal walked into a bar...
Chapter 8 - Neandertal Dreaming
Chapter 9 - Neandertal Personality
Chapter 10 - Thinking Like a Neandertal

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Biography

Thomas Wynn is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs.

Frederick L. Coolidge is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs.

Wynn and Coolidge are co-authors of The Rise of Homo sapiens: The Evolution of Modern Thinking and co-editors (with Sophie A. de Beaune) of Cognitive Archaeology and Human Evolution.

Popular Science
By: Thomas Wynn(Author), Frederick L Coolidge(Author)
210 pages, b/w photos, b/w illustrations
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"An intriguing look at fellow beings who seem to have been 'inexact mirrors of ourselves'"
- Kirkus

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