Eat Like a Neanderthal

Eat Like a Neanderthal

Roughly 120,000 years ago, in what would someday be Spain, a group of Neanderthals prepared their supper. That night’s menu did not feature mammoth, or any other big game. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Instead, as dusk descended, some individuals tended tortoises, crackling belly-up on the fire. Others used flint knives to quarter rabbits for roasting and marrow. A pack of youngsters returned to the cave, pe…