There is evidence of the intensive and long-term exploitation of marine food resources at Figueira Brava Neanderthals were eating fish, mussels and seals at a site in present-day Portugal ...

Neanderthals and other prehistoric humans have a reputation for being bloodthirsty brutes, existing on a diet of megafauna ...

However, food remains preserved in the calculus (hardened tartar) around their teeth show that the Neanderthal diet also included various plants, either collected directly or from eating the stomach ...

Neanderthals 'could kill at a distance' Neanderthals ... which are wonderful things to be eating through the winter when there's not a lot of other dependable food around." Last year, a team ...

but also eating freshwater turtles and rabbits, which imply a degree of planning rarely considered for Neanderthals,” she said. The site yielded over 280,000 bone fragments, with a significant ...

Our closest cousins, the Neanderthals, excelled at making stone tools and hunting animals, and survived the rigors of multiple ice ages. So why did they disappear 27,000 years ago? While ...

Scientists have produced a remarkable reconstruction of what a Neanderthal woman would have ... as it would have been - so she's not able to eat in quite the same way," explained Dr Pomeroy.

Neanderthals tended to bury their dead in caves, while early modern humans buried their dead in the fetal position, new research finds. Neanderthals are among the closest extinct relatives of ...

The reasons for the demise of the Neanderthals some 30 thousand years ago, only a few millennia after the first appearance of modern humans in Europe, remain controversial, and are a focus of ...

This recent archaeological finding lays bare a fascinating aspect of Neanderthal behaviour, which includes their penchant for collecting. Found in the Prado Vargas Cave, this marine fossil ...