Latest Breaking News

Warpy

(114,585 posts)

3. How odd, other skeletal remains have indicated a largely meat based diet

Thu Mar 9, 2017, 12:22 AM

Mar 2017

I imagine they were like everybody else and just ate whatever they could get that didn't try to eat them first, and some that did. The relatively balmy Iberian Peninsula would likely have yielded more plant foods than territory closer to the glacial boundaries.

Other things we know are that they lived in fixed territories and were ambush hunters, unlike Homo Sap, who was a chase hunter and followed herds of game for long distances.

Edit history

Please sign in to view edit histories.

Recommendations

0 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):

59 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

Neanderthal dental tartar reveals plant-based diet and drugs [View all] JudyM Mar 2017 OP

Dirty hippies IronLionZion Mar 2017 #1

Dirty hippies and their orgies -- LuvNewcastle Mar 2017 #9

Sweet! IronLionZion Mar 2017 #33

Only if you think your next trip is on aspirin and antibiotics. Igel Mar 2017 #11

My next trip is on a plant based diet IronLionZion Mar 2017 #34

You mean tartar can last 50,000 years!!!! LeftInTX Mar 2017 #2

Yeah, if you don't want to be embarrassed when paleontologists dig you up, lagomorph777 Mar 2017 #40

How odd, other skeletal remains have indicated a largely meat based diet Warpy Mar 2017 #3

They probably had some people that understood their environment, plant and animal brewens Mar 2017 #6

Most of the Neanderthal remains are from late. Igel Mar 2017 #14

Huh? Warpy Mar 2017 #16

Yeah ColemanMaskell Mar 2017 #21

I think dogs were important lagomorph777 Mar 2017 #41

Yeah, there was an article recently about that ColemanMaskell Mar 2017 #59

Igel, nice info about language. Thanks. Interesting distinction between "most" and "a majority". ColemanMaskell Mar 2017 #28

51% of something would be a majority--but not "most." tblue37 Mar 2017 #54

in English, I meant. Merriam-webster, that sort of thing ColemanMaskell Mar 2017 #58

Interesting! JudyM Mar 2017 #17

I wonder if they found any ganja, magic mushrooms, or amanita muscaria hollowdweller Mar 2017 #4

OMG - I forgot this thing even existed LeftInTX Mar 2017 #13

I read a long time ago ProudLib72 Mar 2017 #5

100 grams of pine nuts have 670 calories meadowlander Mar 2017 #15

Being a hunter-gatherer means constant foraging, eating as you go. When the hunters managed Hekate Mar 2017 #18

That reminds me of a film I saw ProudLib72 Mar 2017 #19

okay, believable -- ColemanMaskell Mar 2017 #25

Yeah, it doesn't add up TexasBushwhacker Mar 2017 #24

KNR Thank you! Lucinda Mar 2017 #7

I chewed some wild root once. littlemissmartypants Mar 2017 #8

Some wild root -- You couldn't be more specific, give more details? :-) ColemanMaskell Mar 2017 #23

I wish I could. littlemissmartypants Mar 2017 #27

Kicking. littlemissmartypants Mar 2017 #10

It's really provocative, isn't it! calimary Mar 2017 #26

It is & provacative for so many reasons calimary! littlemissmartypants Mar 2017 #48

So do I, littlemisssmartypants. calimary Mar 2017 #51

♡ littlemissmartypants Mar 2017 #53

Fun and interesting comments all around, DUers have depth. Glad I posted it! JudyM Mar 2017 #37

Absolutely. This is the best community on the web, no contest. littlemissmartypants Mar 2017 #49

Thanks for link! burrowowl Mar 2017 #12

K&R Solly Mack Mar 2017 #20

Video: 10 signs you are a Neanderthal Petrushka Mar 2017 #22

I have about every trait except the receding chin, big nose, or brow ridges! diane in sf Mar 2017 #29

Fascinating. Thanks. . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2017 #30

Sure! I caught it on NPR driving home and thought it was fascinating, too. JudyM Mar 2017 #38

I have to stop get the red out Mar 2017 #31

Certainly more moral sarge43 Mar 2017 #32

Please the Spanish Neanderthals ate Tappas and their cousins from Belgium ate waffles Botany Mar 2017 #35

Not exactly. I believe it varies between 1% and 3%. We all have a little Neanderthal. Nitram Mar 2017 #44

The headline is a little misleading. the research actually showed that some Neanderthals were Nitram Mar 2017 #36

Agreed, "some" would be more accurate. JudyM Mar 2017 #39

I heard a good piece about this yesterday on NPR with interviews of the scientists involved. Nitram Mar 2017 #43

Yes! That was the source of inspiration to post about it on DU. Heard it on the way home. JudyM Mar 2017 #47

I wonder if future paleontologists will decipher the Great Trump Extinction Event lagomorph777 Mar 2017 #42

The GTEE: the extinction of grace, class, intelligence and knowledge. Nitram Mar 2017 #45

Hey, be glad you are related to Neanderthals oldcynic Mar 2017 #46

Agree. Fascinating stuff. littlemissmartypants Mar 2017 #50

The samples come from the last millennia of the species. Orsino Mar 2017 #52

Not sure about that logic, Orsino - we have no evidence either way... JudyM Mar 2017 #55

The logic's sound enough. Orsino Mar 2017 #56

This is really so fascinating! Kimchijeon Mar 2017 #57