The Last Neanderthal
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-1-5095-6958-8 (ISBN)
Slimak takes the reader on an extraordinary journey of discovery that is both scientific and profoundly human, blending rigorous research with evocative storytelling. This breathtaking exploration of the past not only unearths the lost world of the Neanderthals but forces us to confront the unspoken question: is this how humanity dies?
A compelling narrative spanning millennia, The Last Neanderthal is both a groundbreaking scientific revelation and a profound reflection on the fragility of humanity and the threads that connect us to the distant past.
Ludovic Slimak is a paleoanthropologist at the University of Toulouse and Director of the Grotte Mandrin research project. His work focuses on the last Neanderthal societies and he is the author of several hundred scientific studies on these populations. His research has been featured in Nature, Science, Cell, The New York Times, the Guardian and elsewhere.
First words
Chapter I - Unexpected complications on the way to the unthought
Boldly risking a step into the unknown
Another place, another time?
French poems…
Wandering through the naves of our thermonuclear cathedrals
Nanotechnologies of the first humans
From impressionistic dots to thick lines
A thousand millennia of Anatolian transgressions
Mythologies of the first modern humans
Human beings known as shadows
A first contact with inverted values
Making the best of a bad job
Chapter II - The last Neanderthal? An improbable encounter
The last Neanderthal!
The imaginary realms lying between two worlds
Upside down... Thorin is one hundred and five millennia old!
From rivers that unite to rivers that separate
Light beyond the unknown lands
A last Neanderthal, in his place? Touching the unquantifiable
From flesh to bone
The mind in matter and the gaze versus reality
Mental processes on the edge of the hole
For a few centimetres too many
The first of the last contacts?
Three waves breaking against the intellectual Titanic
Genetic surprises
The stone ship
Gone with the Wind
The oases of the sea
A simplified world
Chapter III - How do humans die?
A grammar between two worlds
Apology for the stifled
No one escapes the sphere
Men from the sky and white opossums
The gods must be crazy
Acculturation and the implosions of the spheres
Men in the trees
The gods must be crazy 2.0
In our disordered memories
The times of extinction
Epilogue. This is how humans die
Acknowledgements
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.09.2025 |
|---|---|
| Übersetzer | Andrew Brown |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 231 mm |
| Gewicht | 476 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5095-6958-8 / 1509569588 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5095-6958-8 / 9781509569588 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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