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Neanderthals obtained protein in their diet from animal sources. [42] Evidence-based isotope studies show that Neanderthals ate primarily meat . [ 43 ] [ 44 ] [ 45 ] Neanderthals were probably apex predators , [ 46 ] and fed predominantly on deer, namely red deer and reindeer , as they were the most abundant game, [ 47 ] but also on ibex , wild ...
In February 2019, scientists reported evidence, based on isotope studies, that at least some Neanderthals may have eaten meat. [21] [22] [23] Nonetheless, instead of diet dominated by meat eating, the genetic and microbiological evidence from dental calculus implies reliance on mushrooms, pine nuts and a species of moss.
What did Neanderthals eat? Were they carnivorous, or did they also chow down on vegetables and mushrooms?
Neanderthals lived in the cold environments of Europe, so their diet mainly consisted of meat, but recent studies found that some groups of Neanderthals were eating nuts, edible fungus like mushrooms, and moss with no indication of meat.
The study found that humans left Africa, encountered and interbred with Neanderthals in three waves: One about 200,000 to 250,000 years ago, not long after the very first Homo sapiens fossils ...
A big question plaguing paleoanthropologists - that is, people who study ancient humans - is just when did Neanderthals disappear? Most thought our early human ancestors went extinct about 30,000 ...
There is no evidence H. antecessor could wield fire and cook, and similarly the wearing on the molars indicates the more frequent consumption of grittier and more mechanically challenging foods than later European species, such as raw rather than cooked meat and underground storage organs. [43]
Eating human flesh raw was the "least popular" method, but a few cases are on record too. [140] Chong notes that human flesh was typically cooked in the same way as "ordinary foodstuffs for daily consumption" – no principal distinction from the treatment of animal meat is detectable, and nearly any mode of preparation used for animals could ...