I'm Alan Alder and this is Clear In Vivid, conversations about connecting and communicating.

If you look at that overall record of the Neat-Tiles, so they, you know, they emerged around

350,000 years ago.

They used to be sort of a bit of a cliché that Neat-Tiles kind of evolved and then just

did the same old stuff for 300,000 years and that's not fair to them.

They did have their own culture, history, they innovated different technologies and we

can see quite specific little regional flarings of ways of doing things.

That's Rebecca Rack's site, so it's written a wonderful and eye-opening book about the

Neat-Tiles.

It's called Kindred, the Neat-Tiles life, love, death and art.

As a proud descendant of Neat-Tiles, I was eager to learn why she believes the latest

genetic and archaeological research suggests they were a lot more creative than we've given

them credit for.

This is so great to be talking to you because you know all about Neanderthals and I'm

so thrilled to have a genetic connection to Neanderthals.

Oh, that's wonderful.

You've had a test of you.

Yeah, I only have about 2%.

I understand that a lot of people have about 2%.

So I'm not sure.

Yeah.

I've never been tested.

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