PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Steven Mithen is Professor of Early Prehistory at the University of Reading. He previously studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and the Universities of Sheffield, York and Cambridge, before joining the University of Reading. An award-winning archaeologist, Steven Mithen specialises in prehistoric hunter-gatherers and the earliest Neolithic farmers, with long-term field projects in southern Jordan and western Scotland. He is a frequent contributor to the London Review of Books, New York Review of Books, New Scientist and the Guardian and has authored over 200 academic articles and books, including The Singing Neanderthals and After the Ice. He was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2004.
An epic achievement that, more than any other book out there, rises to the challenge of elucidating the immense complexity that underpinned the emergence and evolution of human language ... keeps the reader deliciously hanging on -- Dean Falk, Hale G. Smith Professor of Anthropology at Florida State University and author * The Fossil Chronicles * A remarkably comprehensive biography of the single most important thing we all share - language - written with Mithen's wonderful ability to combine deep insights with a story engagingly told -- Robin Dunbar, anthropologist and author * Friends: Understanding the Power of Our Most Important Relationships * Praise for The Singing Neanderthals: 'Illuminating and thought-provoking * The Times * The most perspicacious portrait of the role of communication among our remote predecessors that I have ever encountered ... A landmark book * New York Review of Books * Wonderfully evocative ... A highly original view of our musical origins * Guardian * A book that has you making up your own theories about how grunts became speech and songs -- Doris Lessing
