Rebecca Wragg Sykes - Chalke History Festival

Rebecca Wragg Sykes

Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes is an archaeologist, author and public scholar, Honorary Research Associate at the McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, and Honorary Fellow in the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool. Her first book Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art won the 2021 PEN Hessell-Tiltman prize for history, Book of the Year 2021 from Current Archaeology, and was one of The New York Times’ 2021 100 Notable Books. Rebecca’s other writing features widely, she speaks in a variety of venues from BBC Radio 4 to Glastonbury Festival, and is a science consultant for museums, film and television. She received the 2024 Darwin Day Medal from Humanists UK, the 2022 Public Anthropology Award from the Royal Anthropological Institute, and the 2022 President’s Award from the Prehistoric Society. Her next book is Matriarcha: Prehistory Re-imagined, telling the stories of women across 5 million years.

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