US study finds Neanderthals ate their veggies

AFP ^ | December 27, 2010 | Unknown

[decimon]

WASHINGTON (AFP) – A US study on Monday found that Neanderthals, prehistoric cousins of humans, ate grains and vegetables as well as meat, cooking them over fire in the same way homo sapiens did.

The new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) challenges a prevailing theory that Neanderthals' over reliance on meat contributed to their extinction around 30,000 years ago.

Researchers found grains from numerous plants, including a type of wild grass, as well as traces of roots and tubers, trapped in plaque buildup on fossilized Neanderthal teeth unearthed in northern Europe and Iraq.

[decimon]

Probably looks like someone's shop teacher.

A wax figure representing a Neanderthal man on display at a museum. A US study on Monday found that Neanderthals, prehistoric cousins of humans, ate grains and vegetables as well as meat, cooking them over fire in the same way homo sapiens did.… Read more » (AFP/File)

[decimon]

Plaquard ping.

[ReverendJames]

Gym teacher. Those guys were so chubby/flabby/FAT and they pushed us to exercise??!!

[wendy1946]

The basic non evolution of modern man.

[Sacajaweau]

Look at a class picture.....they're all different!!!

So this is row 5 3rd from the left....right???...And that was the hairstyle back then....right????...and no shirt....right???....and no jewelry...

Who comes up with these stupid recreations????

[pnh102]

Some good eating veggies did for the Neanderthals.

[Little Bill]

Bad dental hygiene ping.

[exDemMom]

challenges a prevailing theory that Neanderthals' over reliance on meat contributed to their extinction around 30,000 years ago

Silly theory. Since some animals are pure carnivores, it doesn't seem likely that a more carnivorous diet would somehow lead to extinction.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Ah, but homo sapiens invented the toothbrush and the rest is history!

[dog breath]

They keep finding out all their theories are wrong about Neanderthals.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Mad mammoth disease.

[org.whodat]

Anyone that thought other wise had no common sense!!!

[Dilbert San Diego]

But how did the Neanderthals treat their gay, lesbian, and trans-gendered people? That’s all that matters to some liberals nowadays. Some condemn all cultures which ever existed, including our own, because we don’t celebrate the diversity of San Francisco.

[JimSEA]

Seeing as how reading the fossil record is like reading a book with most of the pages either missing or not yet discovered, perhaps the sophistication of these people demonstrates that they are us. Of great interest is the discovery of likely modern humans in the Middle East with an age of some 400,000 years.

[Yardstick]

They keep finding out all their theories are wrong about Neanderthals.

I'm cheering for the Neanderthals.

So far it's Neanderthals ~35, Scientists 0.

[Born to Conserve]

“The basic non evolution of modern man.”

I was an organic research chemist for a while. Evolution made perfect sense to me.

I was a computer programmer for a while. Evolution made perfect sense to me.

I was a systems analyst for a while. Evolution made perfect sense to me.

I’ve been a mathematician for some time. Evolution still makes perfect sense to me.

It’s not like I give it a free ride; I’m always questioning it and testing it against all the new things I learn, but it always winds up making perfect sense to me.

[Dan(9698)]

The toothbrush was invented in the south.

Otherwise it would be a teethbrush.

[SunkenCiv]

· GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach · · join list or digest · view topics · view or post blog · bookmark · post a topic · subscribe ·
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[SunkenCiv]

The Future of the Past: Archaeology in the 21st Century by Eberhard Zangger

[W]hen the headteacher Johann Karl Fuhlrott discovered the bones of a Neanderthal in a cave near Dusseldorf in 1856... Rudolf Virchow, President of the Deutsche Gessellschaft fur Anthropologie... who personally promoted the principle 'always practise honesty and stand by the facts whatever happens' -- endorsed the interpretation that the Neanderthal was a bow-legged, Mongolian Cossack with rickets, who had been lucky enough to survive multiple head injuries, but who, during a campaign by Russian forces against France in 1814, had been wounded, and (stark naked) had crawled into a cave, where he had died. Thirty years passed before the specialists recognised their mistake. [pp 288-289]

[blam]

Neanderthals, Humans Interbred, DNA Proves

A newly mapped Neanderthal genome reveals that between 1-4 percent of DNA of many humans today came from Neanderthals.