Neanderthal Fat Factory: What Can We Learn?

Описание: Neanderthals were running an industrial fat-rendering site 125,000 years ago. What can this tell us about ancient humans - and ourselves - today? The more we learn about Neanderthals and other ancient humans, the more modern health fads like paleo diets and "ancestral eating" start to look like just that: fads.

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Paper on the Neanderthal fat factory: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...

Neanderthals were also altering the landscape 125K years ago (same research team as the Neanderthal Fat Factory!): https://press.uni-mainz.de/neandertha...

The "high meat diet" chemical signature can also come from eating aged/decomposed meat, and/or from eating maggots: https://www.science.org/content/artic...

Several papers on how Neanderthals were cooking with grains, legumes, & other plants 70,000 years ago:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-...

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas...

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journa...

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