Ms Rebecca Wragg Sykes

Archaeologist, author and broadcaster specialising in human origins. Her PhD, awarded in 2010, was the first full appraisal of the late Neanderthals of Britain for two decades. Her book Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art, published by Bloomsbury Sigma in 2020, won the 2021 PEN Hessell-Tiltman prize for history and was Current Archaeology magazine's Book Of The Year. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Times, The Guardian and she has featured on podcasts, including Science Rules! with Bill Nye in the US, and radio, including BBC Radio 4's Start The Week, Front Row, Infinite Monkey Cage and You're Dead To Me and Radio 3’s Freethinking.