Neanderthal Sex

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

History Hit

Society, Sex, Scandal, Education, History

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

What comes to mind when you think of a neanderthal?

Probably a hunched, hairy, grunting version of a man who’s shuffling around his cave some 40,000 years ago.

How accurate is this reputation? What were their sex lives like? And how much did they go back to the caves of us Homo sapiens?

Joining us is to explore the life and sex of neanderthals, is Palaeolithic archaeologist and author of Growing Up In The Ice Age, April Nowell.

This episode was edited by Tom Delargy. The producer was Stuart Beckwith. The senior producer was Charlotte Long.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Between To Betwixt the Sheets, the History of Sex Scandal and Society from History Hit.
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0:28.0	Hello my lovely betrixters, it's me Kate Lister. I am here with your fair dues warning.
0:32.0	Hey Kate, what's a fair dues warning?
0:34.0	Well, that is the warning that we have to give at the top of each show
0:38.0	to make sure that everyone knows.
0:40.0	This is an adult podcast spoken by adults to other adults about adult things covering a range of adult subjects and in an adult way and you should be an adult too.
0:49.0	And now we've got that little lot out of the way, well if you happen to keep listening and you happen to get offended, don't come crying to us.
0:56.5	Because fair do's, we did tell you. Dawn breaks on a new day some 40,000 years ago, like quite a while ago, and we are on a landmass that will later be
1:18.1	called Spain.
1:19.8	It's quiet, apart from some birds in the distance flying over vast planes.
1:26.0	It's also bloody freezing.
1:29.0	I am trying to have a cozy relaxing day in my cave all wrapped up in my animal fur blankets.
1:36.5	Fofur is not a thing yet so vegans don't come for us, but even more concerning, there's this Neanderthal fella that I brought back to the cave the other night,
1:46.2	and he won't sod off. He's out there roaming around somewhere trying to get my attention.
1:52.2	He's actually a lot smarter and more capable
1:54.8	than you think anyanderthal will be, but this is just never going to work with different species.
2:01.1	And you might think that I'm being mean ignoring this guy, but I'm not on my own. In fact, as we will find out, the practice of Homo sapiens ghosting Neanderthals is a pretty established practice at this point. What do you look for, man?
2:23.0	Oh, money, of close.
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