[WayneS]

...they took care of the sick persons, buried their deceased, ate seafood...

Improperly prepared blowfish is probably what wiped them out.

[SunkenCiv]

;') Hilariously, one of the many rearguard positions on the retreat in the face of the overwhelming evidence that we have Neandertal ancestry is that, oh, gracile lovely modern archaic humans ate their vegetables and ate fish, unlike the meat-only Neandertal brutes. :')

Shift In Eating Habits Of Early Modern Humans
2 May 2001

Compared to Neanderthals living in inland Europe up to 100,000 years earlier, who relied primarily on land animals for their protein, early modern humans supplemented their diets with a significant amount of fish and waterfowl. The evidence has been outlined in a paper entitled 'Stable isotope evidence for increasing dietary breadth in the European mid-Upper Paleolithic', which is scheduled to appear in the May 22 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. Dr Michael Richards, of the Department of Archaeological Sciences, at the University of Bradford, said: "This new information highlights the differences in diets between Neanderthals and early modern humans and shows that modern humans were more flexible and adaptable in their dietary choices. This ability to adapt and use a range of resources could perhaps have given us, as a species, a competitive edge over the Neanderthals."