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mettwurstkaninchen@feddit.org to History@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago

Neanderthals ran ‘fat factories’ 125,000 years ago - Leiden University

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Neanderthals ran ‘fat factories’ 125,000 years ago - Leiden University

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Neanderthals ran ‘fat factories’ 125,000 years ago
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Fat is a very valuable food component, packed with calories, especially important when other resources might be scarce. Our earliest ancestors in Africa already cracked open bones to extract the fatty marrow from bone cavities. But now a new study published in Science Advances demonstrates that our…
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    Would be interesting to know what tools they used for boiling the bones…

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