Archaeologists Were Digging Into a Hill—and Stumbled Upon a 125,000-Year-Old Factory
NEUMARK-NORD ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE NEAR LEIPZIG, GERMANY, JUL 8 – Neanderthals at Neumark-Nord processed bones from at least 172 mammals to extract marrow and bone grease, demonstrating advanced planning and environmental use, researchers said.
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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…
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Read Full ArticleThe sophisticated bone fat extraction technique rewrites once again the history of Neanderthal intelligence.
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