“We don’t have text, we have no written records. Roman remains were all well and good, but the Pleistocene geological epoch was a much more “exciting” field. Years later, a video shown at the Altamira Cave Museum in northern Spain prompted her to turn her attention to her true passion. “That was when I realized that I wanted to study archeology,” she explains. During a visit organized by her school, Sykes was able to see first-hand the work carried out on a Roman-era archeological site. The relationship between Rebecca Wragg Sykes and the Neanderthals began when she was just 14 years old. The relationship between the Neanderthals and this world was born around 350,000 years ago.
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