Archaeological discoveries help shed light on the dietary preferences of our closest caveman cousins – the Neanderthals.
New evidence by Anthropologists opposes common assumptions that modern man enjoys a greater variety of foods than did our ancestors. Finding instead, that our tastes were similar and that the Neanderthal diet was equally diverse.
According to anthropologist Amanda Henry from the Center for Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology “Overall, these data suggest that Neanderthals were capable of complex food-gathering behaviours that included both hunting of large game animals and the harvesting and processing of plant foods…”
Sharing our appetite for sweets and brain-expanding shellfish 150,000 years ago, along with a diverse array of carnivorous finds including megafauna species like mammoth and rhinoceros.
