Publisher's Synopsis
"A lively and very personal account of the earliest inhabitants of Europe by the continent’s leading palaeoanthropologist and hominid fossil finder. Arsuaga’s viewpoint comes as a refreshing and instructive contrast to much of the English language literature on the Neanderthals and their relatives. This book should be read by anyone interested in their own origins and our extinct relatives."
—Dr Ian Tattersall, Curator in the Department of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History and author of The Fossil Trail and The Last Neanderthal .
"As an internationally renowned professor of human palaeontology . . . [Arsuaga] certainly knows his stuff, so we get the necessary evolutionary and environmental background to this complex story, all well–told for the general reader."
— New Scientist
