Posted on 03/09/2020 1:43:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
They swim in their own pee.
“Stone Age Seafood-Based Diet Was Full Of Toxic Metals”
Got news for ya....It still is. Just don’t eat a ton
of fish every day. I’m almost 70. I love seafood.
A good Roman hamburger with pine nuts in between
your seafood cravings might be a good thing.
Welcome Fred. Its rare that I can send you something you haven’t already seen, LOL.
And then we moved on to lead plates and copper steins.
Neanderthals made extensive use of coastal environments, munching on fish, crabs and mussels, researchers have found, in the latest study to reveal similarities between modern humans and our big-browed cousins.
Until now, many Neanderthal sites had shown only small-scale use of marine resources; for example, scattered shells. But now archaeologists have excavated a cave on the coast of Portugal and discovered a huge, structured deposit of remains, including from mussels and limpets, dating to between 106,000 and 86,000 years ago.
Researchers say the discovery shows that Neanderthals systematically collected seafood: in some layers the density of shells was as high as 370kg per cubic metre. They say this is exciting because the use of marine resources on such a scale and in such a way had previously been thought to be a trait of anatomically modern humans...
The discovery appears to throws cold water on the idea that the marine-rich diet of modern humans, high in fatty acids, helped them to outcompete Neanderthals as a result of better cognition.
A reconstruction of a Neanderthal created for the Natural History Museum in London. Photograph: Richard Gray/Alamy">A reconstruction of a Neanderthal created for the Natural History Museum in London.
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