What Did They Eat: The Neanderthals?
The food and fall of our ancient cousins
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6 min readJun 16, 2021
The Neanderthals, one of our closest hominid cousins, emerged around 200,000 years ago in Eurasia, roughly the same time homo sapiens were emerging in Africa. It was once assumed that the two species were radically different — the smart, cunning humans, and the brutish, dumb Neanderthals.
