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“They have been remembered as the wives, mothers, daughters and sisters of powerful men, not as autonomous individuals and active leaders with their own political agency.”
― Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule
― Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule
“Amid ancient surfaces densely spangled by myriad artefacts, fireplaces are like archaeological wormholes, bridging the impossible chasms of time separating us from long-vanished dwellers. ”
― Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
― Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
“In eighteenth-century France, when someone died in a village, a message would be sent to the bell-ringer. The change ringing that followed would give the age and sex of the deceased, so that you truly knew ‘for whom the bell tolled’.”
― Death's Summer Coat
― Death's Summer Coat
“Let’s finish our shared journey through these pages by letting your guard down. Push against the impossible, and perform a quantum shift back in time to the Pleistocene. Close your eyes and pick a world: a grassy plain under cool winter sun; a warm forest track, soft loam underfoot; or a now-sunken rocky coast, gulls’ cries salting the air. Now listen, step forward, she’s here […]Neanderthal. Human. Kindred.”
― Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
― Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
“Look through shadows, listen beyond echoes; they have much to tell. Not only of other ways to be human, but new eyes to see ourselves. The most glorious thing about the Neanderthals is that they belong to all of us, and they're no dead-end, past-tense phenomenon. They are right here. In my hands typing and your brain understanding my words. Read on, and meet your kindred.”
― Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
― Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
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