Tristan Hughes

I feel this is a topic that we could delve into for a long time, but it's worthy of another episode in its own right.

But I mean, that length of time is mind boggling, especially with the human Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interacting.

It's very late in that story.

But with Neanderthals, are we largely then just going to be thinking Eurasia?

Well, if we go forward to, let's say, 200,000, 300,000 years ago, when, it seems by that time you've got the idea of the classic Neanderthal.

And also, I say Neanderthal, you say Neanderthal.

Is there a right or wrong way?

My way is right.

It's fair enough.

Oh, it's like Tristanosaurus or something like that.

I'm going to show you how malleable I am now.

I will now, for the rest of this episode, try and always say Neanderthal.

I just have real fun.

There we go.

Tomatoes, tomatoes.

So the classic Neanderthal, let's go through it at the minute.

Physiology, cognitively, I mean, what picture should we have of a Neanderthal?

And then bigger body mass, so then they have to hunt more.

But we think of Neanderthals with like spears and the like.

And I mean, the classic image is them with woolly mammoths or woolly rhinos.