Other Writing
Rebecca has been writing for diverse audiences for over a decade, from opinion pieces and articles to reviews
Most Recent
Includes LiveScience article on Neanderthals; piece on the Nobel Prize award for palaeogenomics for The Guardian; Neanderthals and SETI for Broadcast magazine; book review for The New York Times; How accurate is The Dig? for The Times, and Sheanderthal for Aeon.
Previous
Other previous writing can be found at The Guardian, Time, Aeon, History Revealed, BBC Science Focus and Scientific American.
Rebecca has also written and edited for education providers such as Dorling Kindersley as well as publishing a personal blog until 2020 The Rocks Remain.
See below for full list of previous writing, and separate list of Academic Publications.
2022
The Guardian Opinion on Neanderthals and the Nobel Prize.
Broadcast Magazine: Close Encounters in the Fourth Dimension.
The New York Times [Review] What Made Our Species Unique: Walking
The Times How accurate is The Dig?
Aeon Sheanderthal
BBC History Extra The Neanderthal In The Mirror
Anthropology News Ten Things Archaeology Can Tell Us About Neanderthals
Current Archaeology The Outermost West: Neanderthals in Britain.
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art. Bloomsbury Sigma
Time Much of What We Thought About Neanderthals Was Wrong. Here's Why That Matters.
BBC Science Focus Did Neanderthals Have a Society?
Big Issue Why We Were Wrong About The Neanderthals
The Neanderthal Renaissance AEON magazine, March 2019
Opinion piece for Guardian on Mary Anning and upcoming Ammonite film
Ancient Neanderthal-Denisovan hybrid unearthed in Siberian cave BBC Focus magazine, September Issue 326
Rethinking the Neanderthals BBC Focus magazine, July Issue 324
Trowelblazers: Raising our trowels to pioneering women archaeologists, Current Archaeology magazine, February Issue 324
2016-2017
Prehistory consultant for Dorling Kindersley Big History, History Year by Year, History Map by Map.
Why archaeology needs to come out of the cave and into the digital age Guardian Science Blogs, December
Trowelblazers: women have been digging geosciences longer than you think Guardian Science Blogs, November
Who invented clothes? A Palaeolithic archaeologist answers Guardian Science Blogs
Time is Not Made to Flow in Vain: Eternity and Apocalypse in Assynt and Mars and Re-igniting the Fire: Challenge and Chance in Science Career Trajectories Guest Blogger at Scientific American
Personal blog, The Rocks Remain
Day of Archaeology, various posts 2011-2017