Episode 2: Why Doi has to eat his great-uncle

It's 40,000 years ago. Young Doi stands face to face with his distant relatives, a group of dancing Neanderthals. Will they accept him?

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The following literature was used for this episode:

Francesca Romagnoli et al. (eds) 'Updating Neanderthals. Understanding Behavioral Complexity in the Late Middle Palaeolithic' , Academic Press 2022

Mateja Hajdinjak et al. ' Initial Upper Palaeolithic humans in Europe recently had 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 et al. '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 Zilhão 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