Archaeologists Were Digging Into a Hill—and Stumbled Upon a 125,000-Year-Old Factory

Neanderthals Created "Fat Factories" 125,000 Years Ago - Archaeology Magazine

Complete and fragmentary bones recovered from the Neumark-Nord 2 site LEIDEN, THE NETHERLANDS—Animal fat was a valuable source of nutrition and calories for early human societies. Evidence of hominin groups smashing open animal bones to extract marrow dates back hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years. However, Neanderthals took this process even one step further by creating sophisticated fat-rendering “factories” 125,000 years ago, acc…

Archaeologists Were Digging Into a Hill—and Stumbled Upon a 125,000-Year-Old Factory

A “fat factory,” that is.

Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago

The evidence comes from the Neumark-Nord 2 site in central Germany, dating back 125,000 years to an interglacial period. The post Neanderthals ran ‘fat factories’ 125,000 years ago appeared first on Archaeology Wiki.