Hmmmm... I would love to read that!

Here is a review of The singing Neanderthals; link via John Hawks. Bit of googling got me these other reviews: guardian unlimited; Independent.

By the way, these lines from the Bookslut review,

Try to square this supposition with our ancestors trekking out of Africa to new lands over a million years ago, or burying their loved ones in emotion- laced ritual at 90,000 years ago.

reminded me of that moving scene described by Madhavaiah Krishnan (in the collection Nature's spokesman) about elephant herds mourning for their dead.