![]() ![]() ![]() Their neighbours publicly shun them while privately seeking their counsel and medical expertise. In 1620s Lancashire, Sarah Haworth and her family are believed to be “cunning”, a euphemism for witches. Higham conveys the thrill of archaeological discovery eruditely and accessibly. Instead, Higham draws on new information to describe a previously unknown race of humans – the Denisovans – and their contemporaries, an eclectic variety of beings who include, wonderfully, a tiny island-dwelling race known as “the hobbits”. As archaeology professor Tom Higham convincingly argues in this fascinating and deeply researched book, this is a simplification of the facts that verges on the misleading. It is received wisdom that humanity is descended from the Neanderthals, and that they were the only prehistoric humanoid race. ![]()
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