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Cafe Neandertal: Excavating Our Past in One of Europe's Most Ancient Places
Written by Beebe Bahrami
Narrated by Kirsten Potter
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Centered in the Dordogne region of southwestern France, one of Europe's most concentrated regions for Neandertal and early modern human occupations, writer Beebe Bahrami follows and participates in the work of archaeologists who are doing some of the most comprehensive and global work to date on the research, exploration, and recovery of our ancient ancestors. From this prehistoric perch, Bahrami gets to know first-hand the Neandertals and the people who love them-those who have devoted their lives to them. She is thrown into a world debating not only what happened to these close cousins but also what legacy they have left for those who followed.
Cafe Neandertal is also a detective story, investigating one of the biggest mysteries of prehistory and archaeology: Who were the Neandertals? Why did they disappear around 35,000 years ago? And more mysteriously, what light do they shed on us moderns? Bahrami takes readers into the thick of an excavation, neck-deep in Neanderthal dirt, and to the front row of the heated debates about our long-lost cousins.
Cafe Neandertal is also a detective story, investigating one of the biggest mysteries of prehistory and archaeology: Who were the Neandertals? Why did they disappear around 35,000 years ago? And more mysteriously, what light do they shed on us moderns? Bahrami takes readers into the thick of an excavation, neck-deep in Neanderthal dirt, and to the front row of the heated debates about our long-lost cousins.
Author
Beebe Bahrami
Award-winning writer and anthropologist Beebe Bahrami is the author of the travel memoirs Café Oc and Café Neandertal and several travel guides, including The Spiritual Traveler Spain and Moon Camino de Santiago. Her essays appear in BBC Travel, Wine Enthusiast, Archaeology, the Pennsylvania Gazette, Perceptive Travel, and other publications.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Part history, part travel narrative. Enjoy traveling to the different Neandertal sites along the Mediterranean countries with Beebe a cultural anthropologist (aka journalist). Learn some of the latest developments in the study of our closest relatives in the history of mankind. There are still many questions to be answered but it will make you look at Neandertal's in a different light.