An illustration of a Neanderthals, they group preparing food Image courtesy of Luis Montanya/Marta Montanya/Science Photo Library
Joel Kontinen
A comparison of cut marks on bones reveals that
Neanderthal groups living fairly close to each other had their own distinct
ways of butchering animals
What did Neanderthals eat? They were not to only called species that cooked their food, long before Homo Sapiens were active, they cooked their food using spices.
Neanderthals may have had traditional ways of
preparing food that were particular to each group. Discoveries from two caves
in what is now northern Israel suggest that the residents there butchered the
same kinds of prey in their own distinctive ways.
Modern humans, or Homo sapiens,
weren’t the first hominins to prepare and cook food. There is evidence that
Neanderthals, for example, which inhabited Europe and Asia until about
40,000 years ago, used flint knives to butcher what they caught, cooked a
wide range of animals and spiced up their menu with wild herbs.
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