12 Top archaeology books like The Smart Neanderthal: Cave Art, Bird Catching, and the Cognitive Revolution by Clive Finlayson

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The Smart Neanderthal: Cave Art, Bird Catching, and the Cognitive Revolution

By: Clive Finlayson

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Finlayson, quien está a la vanguardia de esta investigación, relata los descubrimientos de su equip…

If you liked the archaeology plot in The Smart Neanderthal: Cave Art, Bird Catching, and the Cognitive Revolution by Clive Finlayson , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story

By: Lee Berger , John Hawks , Harrison Ford , Douglas Chadwick

4.24

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

This first-person narrative about an archaeological discovery is rewriting the story of human evolu… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • history
  • archaeology
  • evolution
  • nonfiction
  • prehistory
  • anthropology
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2. The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story

By: Dimitra Papagianni , Michael A. Morse

4.23

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In recent years, the common perception of the Neanderthals has been transformed, thanks to new disc… read more

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  • history
  • archaeology
  • evolution
  • anthropology
  • nonfiction
  • prehistory
  • science

3. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

By: Ilan Pappé

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more

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4. The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry

By: Bryan Sykes

3.50

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

One of the most dramatic stories of genetic discovery since James Watson's The Double Helix--a work… read more

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5. The Horse, the Wheel and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World

By: None

3.67

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known … read more

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6. The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies, #1)

By: K.J. Charles

4.04

Format: 271 pages, ebook

A lord in danger. A magician in turmoil. A snowball in hell. Exiled to China for twenty years, L… read more

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"Have you seen the mummies at the British Museum?"

-K.J. Charles, The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies, #1)

"Someone wanted to choke me to death on my own hair?"

-K.J. Charles, The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies, #1)

"Two death sentences? Really? I mean, you look very well, considering."

-K.J. Charles, The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies, #1)

"He had always found hope harder to deal with than despair. Despair didn't get disappointed."

-K.J. Charles, The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies, #1)

7. The Dispatcher

By: John Scalzi , Zachary Quinto

4.57

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Listening Length: 2 hours and 18 minutes One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible t… read more

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8. Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans

By: Brian M. Fagan

3.33

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Cro-Magnons were the first fully modern Europeans?not only the creators of the stunning cave painti… read more

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9. Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness

By: Ian Tattersall

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Becoming Human, noted anthropologist and renaissance man Ian Tattersall explores what makes us u… read more

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10. The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction

By: Pat Shipman

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

With their large brains, sturdy physique, sophisticated tools, and hunting skills, Neanderthals are… read more

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11. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

By: David Mitchell

4.16

Format: 433 pages, ebook

A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

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12. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

By: Cat Bohannon

4.32

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • history
  • evolution
  • nonfiction
  • anthropology
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13. Travel by Bullet (The Dispatcher, #3)

By: John Scalzi

4.02

Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio

The Audible and New York Times best-selling "Dispatcher" series returns with a brand-new mystery, p… read more

Similar categories in John Scalzi's Travel by Bullet (The Dispatcher, #3) book and Clive Finlayson's The Smart Neanderthal: Cave Art, Bird Catching, and the Cognitive Revolution

  • audiobook
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14. Murder by Other Means (The Dispatcher, #2)

By: John Scalzi

4.04

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

In the world of the Dispatchers, a natural or accidental death is an endpoint; a murder pushes the … read more

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  • audiobook
"John Scalzi “I want you to know there was some discussion about whether to make the pizza." "Because it's a Hawaiian pizza?" "Yeah. We have a new employee who makes the pizzas. He considers pineapple…"

-John Scalzi, Murder by Other Means (The Dispatcher, #2)

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15. Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos

By: Lisa Kaltenegger

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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16. Floating Hotel

By: Grace Curtis

3.70

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

This cozy debut science fiction novel tells a story of misfits, rebels, found family—and a mystery … read more

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17. Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs

By: Camilla Townsend

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingd… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • anthropology
  • audiobook
"Letters and diaries sometimes bring us close to grand moments or touching scenes in the history of Euro-Americans, but harkening back to the thoughts and feelings of the less powerful, we meet only s…"

-Camilla Townsend, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs

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18. Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art

By: Rebecca Wragg Sykes

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of t… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • history
  • archaeology
  • evolution
  • nonfiction
  • prehistory
  • nature
  • anthropology
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19. Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

By: Amanda H. Podany

4.50

Format: 662 pages, Hardcover

A unique history of the ancient Near East that compellingly presents the life stories of kings, pri… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • history
  • archaeology
  • nonfiction
  • prehistory
  • anthropology
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20. The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins

By: Tom Higham

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

'Fascinating and entertaining. If you read one book on human origins, this should be it' Ian Morris… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • history
  • archaeology
  • evolution
  • nonfiction
  • prehistory
  • anthropology
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21. The Scythians: Nomad Warriors of the Steppe

By: Barry Cunliffe

4.04

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

Brilliant horsemen and great fighters, the Scythians were nomadic horsemen who ranged wide across t… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • archaeology
  • anthropology
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22. The Book of Humans: A Brief History of Culture, Sex, War and the Evolution of Us

By: Adam Rutherford

3.83

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

We like to think of ourselves as exceptional beings, but is there really anything special about us … read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • history
  • evolution
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • anthropology
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23. Ancient Bones: Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human

By: Madelaine Böhme

4.16

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling new account of human origins, as told by the paleontologist who led the most groundbrea… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • history
  • archaeology
  • evolution
  • nonfiction
  • prehistory
  • anthropology
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24. A Pocket History of Human Evolution: How We Became Sapiens

By: Silvana Condemi

3.96

Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition

Why aren’t we more like other apes? How did we win the evolutionary race? Find out how “wise” Homo … read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • history
  • evolution
  • nonfiction
  • prehistory
  • anthropology
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25. The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature

By: Ludovic Slimak

3.69

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A riveting scientific journey exploring the enigma of the Neanderthal and the species’ unique form … read more

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  • history
  • archaeology
  • anthropology
  • nonfiction
  • prehistory
  • science
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26. 50 Great Myths of Human Evolution

By: John H. Relethford

4.16

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

50 Great Myths of Human Evolution uses common misconceptions to explore basic theory and research i… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • evolution
Cover of Between Ape and Human: An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid by Gregory L. Forth

27. Between Ape and Human: An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid

By: Gregory L. Forth

3.21

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

A remarkable investigation into the hominoids of Flores Island, their place on the evolutionary spe… read more

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  • science
  • evolution
  • anthropology
Cover of Stepping-Stones: A Journey through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne by Christine Desdemaines-Hugon

28. Stepping-Stones: A Journey through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne

By: Christine Desdemaines-Hugon

3.93

Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition

“The next best thing to actually seeing the prehistoric cave art of southern Franc[e] . . . A raptu… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • archaeology
  • nonfiction
  • prehistory
  • nature
  • anthropology
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29. The Smart Neanderthal: Cave Art, Bird Catching, and the Cognitive Revolution

By: Clive Finlayson

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Finlayson, quien está a la vanguardia de esta investigación, relata los descubrimientos de su equip… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • history
  • archaeology
  • evolution
  • nonfiction
  • prehistory
  • nature
  • anthropology
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30. They Were Here Before Us: Stories from the First Million Years

By: Eyal Halfon

4.08

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

An epic and highly readable investigation into our very earliest ancestors, focusing on the land co… read more

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  • history
  • evolution
  • nonfiction
  • archaeology
  • science

15 Best audiobook books like The Smart Neanderthal: Cave Art, Bird Catching, and the Cognitive Revolution by Clive Finlayson

Transform Your Habits

Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story

Lee Berger , John Hawks , Harrison Ford , Douglas Chadwick

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

David Mitchell

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Cat Bohannon

4.32

Transform Your Habits

Travel by Bullet (The Dispatcher, #3)

John Scalzi

4.02

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12 must-read audiobook books like Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East by Amanda H. Podany

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Temples, Tombs & Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt

Barbara Mertz

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Persians: The Age of the Great Kings

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World

Mary Beard

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live

Rob Dunn

4.19

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