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We now have compelling evidence from across Middle and Late Pleistocene Eurasia that Neanderthal people built structures. This has big implications for how we think about the capabilities of Neanderthal communities but also the degree to which they differ from contemporary populations of Homo sapiens. Archaeologist Matt Pope considers the record for Neanderthal structures spanning a range of apparent forms from open-air enclosures to partitioned home-bases, from structured bone accumulations to stone circles. Considering these structures through different theoretical lenses from niche construction to entanglement, Matt explores the degree to which Neanderthal populations were making their world, creating homes and engaging in monumentality. Neanderthal structures teach us that to build is human and that it is a behaviour with deep evolutionary roots. Neanderthal structures also show us that, in the absence of visible archaeological evidence for the networks and symbolic orthodoxy we associate with some Upper Palaeolithic cultures, the Middle Palaeolithic involved aspects of monumentality, complex human-animal relations and structured funerary practises.Event is FREE and open to all!
LIVE Daryll Forde, Room 230 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW and
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