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"[…] April Nowell’s illuminating and engaging book […] is important for students and professionals in physical and behavioral anthropology because it fills a gap in helping us understand the fundamental role children played, literally and figuratively, in our hominin past."
Gregory F. Tague
Journal of Paleoanthropology
(05/05/2022)
"…a timely summary of the state-of-the art regarding Pleistocene youngsters, their lives, deaths and material worlds. […] this perspective on children as agents of change and innovation is valid and important beyond the Pleistocene. "
Simon Mays
Childhood in the Past
(12/10/2021)
"This is a must-read for those interested in childhood in the past, and for those seeking a rare humanistic volume on human evolution and Palaeolithic archaeology."
Jennifer C. French
Current World Archaeology
(21/06/2021)
"…this is data-driven, intellectually weighty, wide-ranging and erudite, lively, and packed full of ideas. […] it goes much further than most books on human origins to humanise the Palaeolithic world, and the result is one of the best evocations of the Palaeolithic world I have read. […] It should certainly be required reading for Palaeolithic and prehistoric specialists; and academics in the life sciences and social sciences and interested lay readers will find it of great value."
Paul Pettitt
Professor of Palaeolithic Archaeology, Durham University