Peter Sahlins is an award-winning historian who taught for thirty years at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of six books on a wide range of topics, including the history of the French-Spanish boundary (Boundaries, 1989); peasant revolts (Forest Rites, 1994); immigration and nationality in France (Unnaturally French, 2004), and animal-human relations at the court of Louis XIV (The Year of the Animal, 2017). His most recent work treats the science, rhetoric, myths of Neanderthals in the modern world (Neanderthals Among Us, 2026). He divides his times between Paris and Arcy-sur-Cure in Burgundy, where he offers visits to its famous prehistoric caves.