Host Dave Schlom visits with French archaeologist and paleoanthropologist Ludovic Slimak about his multi-decadal research into Neanderthals. Author of the new book, The Naked Neanderthal: a New Understanding of The Human Creature (Pegasus Books), Slimak is one of the world's foremost experts on these enigmatic and often misrepresented beings that disappeared from Earth about 40,000 years ago.
From boreal forests in Siberia to caves in Europe, Slimak takes us back in time to a much different planet, sandwiched between ice ages, in which Neanderthals lived, leaving behind fascinatingly unique tools handcrafted for hunting and living in a truly wild landscape populated by large mammals.
