New discoveries from ancient caves are rewriting everything we thought we knew about Neanderthal diets. Far from being primitive carnivores, these early humans show signs of unexpected culinary habits, medicinal knowledge, and coastal living.
For much of the 20th century, Neanderthals were cast as primitive hunters—robust, spear-wielding hominins whose survival hinged on the relentless pursuit of mammoths and woolly rhinoceroses. Their diets, scholars believed, were almost exclusively mea... [5264 chars]