Wragg Sykes, Becky 2025

Ancient

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Becky 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 PEN Hessell Tiltman prize for literary history, and her broader work has been recognised with the Royal Anthropological Institute’s 2022 Public Anthropology Award, the 2022 President’s Award from the Prehistoric Society, and the 2024 Darwin Medal from Humanists UK. Rebecca’s next book is Matriarcha: Prehistory Re-imagined, telling the stories of women across 5 million years

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