Neanderthals: How Prehistoric Humans Mastered Ice Age Europe, Developed Culture, and Disappeared 40,000 Years Ago (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798188966973)

They survived 300,000 years of ice ages. They hunted mammoths, built structures in the dark, and may have sung around the fire. Then they vanished - and left part of themselves inside us.

Most people think they know what a Neanderthal was. A hunched, dim-witted brute. A dead end. A cautionary tale about what evolution discards on its way to producing us.

Every single part of that picture is wrong.

What the science actually shows - drawn from landmark excavations across Europe, cutting-edge DNA analysis, and decades of fieldwork by the world's leading researchers - is a species of genuine sophistication. Neanderthals engineered precision tools that took months to master. They organized cooperative hunts across vast frozen landscapes. They maintained social networks spanning hundreds of kilometers. They built deliberate structures deep inside caves where no natural light had ever reached. And when Homo sapiens finally arrived on their doorstep, the two species did not simply clash. They coexisted. They interbred. Their DNA is in your body right now.

In Neanderthals: How Prehistoric Humans Mastered Ice Age Europe, Developed Culture, and Disappeared 40,000 Years Ago, author Victor G. Johnson takes you inside the real world of this extraordinary species - from the ice-swept cliffs of Jersey to the deep caves of southern France where 175,000-year-old stone structures still defy easy explanation.

What you are about to discover will permanently change how you see human history - and yourself.

This book is for anyone who has ever wondered where we truly came from, what makes us human, and what was lost when the last Neanderthal disappeared from the earth 40,000 years ago.

The truth is more extraordinary than the myth. Get your copy today.