CafA Neandertal: Excavating Our Past in One of Europe's Most Ancient Places

Beebe Bahrami

CafA Neandertal: Excavating Our Past in One of Europe's Most Ancient Places
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Counterpoint
Country
United States
Published
27 February 2018
Pages
304
ISBN
9781619026100

CafA Neandertal: Excavating Our Past in One of Europe’s Most Ancient Places

Beebe Bahrami

A brilliant and captivating scientific journey into the lands, research, and mysteries of the Neandertals

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.

In Cafe Neandertal, Bahrami follows this compelling riddle along a path populated with colourful local personalities and opinionated, polemical, and brilliant archaeologists working in remote and fascinating places across Eurasia, all the while maintaining a firm foothold in the Dordogne, a region celebrated by the local tourist office as a vacation destination for 400,000 years. 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 pulls us deeply into the complex mystery of the Neandertals, shedding a surprising light on what it means to be human.

Award-winning writer Bahrami is a delightful guide in this thoroughly enjoyable look into the research and recovery of a group of Neandertal remains in the French Dordogne region … Her wide interests in travel, memoir, food, wine, and more make this exceedingly engaging title more like a French version of Under the Tuscan Sun. - Booklist (starred review)

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