In Europe: thanks to Phil Smith, producer/director, for his excellent direction and wry sense of humour (though I’m sad that River Euphrates was not on the soundtrack!); Finola Lang, assistant producer, for her girly company; Jonathan Partridge, cameraman and gentleman; Simon Farmer, soundman, for his beautiful watercolour postcards; Adrian O’Toole, camera assistant, ‘they’ll like that back at broadcasting hice’; (and thank you to all of the above for my massive Romanian birthday cake).
Thank you to Michael Pitts and John Chambers, diver cameraman and diving buddy in Gibraltar; Nathalie Cabrier, formidable fixer in France, with her infallible sense of direction!; Klaus Schmidt, director of the Göbekli Tepe site; Silviu Constantin, Mihai Bacin, Virgil Dragusin and Alexandra Hillebrand, for taking me to Peştera cu Oase, and for the book of caves; Clive and Gerry Finlayson, and Darren Fa, for conversations about Neanderthals and the sea caves of Gibraltar; Nick Conard, for showing me the site and the beautiful artefacts from Vogelherd, and for giving me such an insight into the Swabian Aurignacian; Wulf Hein, for showing me how to use an atlatl, and sorry for losing your arrows in the long grass; Katerina Harvati, for her knowledge of heads and hybrids; Ed Green, for explaining the Neanderthal Genome Project to me; Jiri Svoboda, for taking me to the vineyards of Dolní Vìstonice and showing me the wonderful ivory carvings in the museum; Martina Laznickova, for helping me to make a reconstruction of the Dolní Vìstonice Venus; Randall White, for an introduction to the Aurignacian and Abri Castanet; Michel Lorblanchet, for his demonstration of Palaeolithic stencilling technique, and for being my guide in Cougnac Cave; and The Musee Duyputren, for letting me examine rachitic skeletons there. And many thanks to Bruce Bradley and Metin Eren for the lesson in Palaeolithic stone tool manufacture.
In the Americas: thanks to Pete Oxley, producer/director, for not losing me in a tar pool and down a crevasse!; Clare Duncan, assistant producer; Paul Jenkins, cameraman (we were good up that glacier, weren’t we?); Simon Farmer, soundman and catalogue model; and David McDowall, assistant cameraman (What! No beer at a folk festival?!).
Also: Karina Rehavia, fixer in Brazil – thank you for looking after us and for rescuing my books! Thanks to Mike Collins and the Gault team; John Johnson on Santa Rosa; John Harris, for getting me into a sticky mess at La Brea tar pits; Rolf Mathewes and his pollen at Simon Fraser University; Rob Toohey, for looking after me in the water and up on the glacier; Jim Orava, for teaching me to ice-climb; Quentin Mackie, for introducing me to some Canadian bears; Tracey Pierre and the Tsuu T’ina First Nation in Canada; Walter Neves and the Brazilian National Museum, for introducing me to Luzia; and Mario Piño for talking me around the site at Monte Verde.
(And thank you to everyone else I have mentioned in the book.)
The views and opinions expressed in this book, where I am not reporting on specific items of published research, are my own – as are any mistakes.
Many thanks to my agents, Hilary Murray and Luigi Bonomi.
Finally, I am hugely grateful to my editors, Richard Atkinson and Natalie Hunt, to my patient copyeditor, Richard Collins, and to the whole team at Bloomsbury.
A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR
ALICE ROBERTS is a qualified medical doctor and has been a lecturer in Anatomy at the University of Bristol since 1999, teaching medical and dental undergraduates, and also surgeons and other doctors later in their careers. She is interested in evolutionary anatomy and how the human body has come to be the way it is. She has a PhD in paleopathology – the study of disease in ancient bones – but is still puzzled why humans suffer so much more from shoulder arthritis than other apes (she thinks it might be because we’ve given up hanging around in trees).
She is committed to public engagement with science and enjoys talking about science with people outside the university: she takes part in outreach to schools and local communities, and contributes to Cheltenham Festival of Science. On television, Alice appeared as a bone expert for Channel 4’s Time Team, and went on to co-present BBC2’s immensely popular Coast series. She has also written and presented two BBC2 series on anatomy and health, rather shockingly titled Don’t Die Young.
She lives in Bristol with her husband Dave and their two naughty terriers, but also enjoys getting back to a more ancestral, nomadic state, albeit in a camper van.
First published in Great Britain 2009
Text © 2009 by Alice Roberts
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Maps © 2009 by Dave Stevens
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