Neanderthals may have feasted on meat and two veg diet

Another good study that helps us to know more about the Paleolithic nutrition.

ttp://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/dec/27/neanderthals-cooked-diet-us-research

Excerpts:

Scientists have upgraded their opinion of Neanderthal cuisine after spotting traces of cooked food on the fossilized teeth of our long-extinct cousins.

The researchers found remnants of date palms, seeds and legumes – which include peas and beans – on the teeth of three Neanderthals uncovered in caves in Iraq and Belgium.

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"In early human groups, women typically collected plants and turned them into food while men hunted. To us, and it is just a suggestion, this brings up the possibility that there was some sexual division of labour in the Neanderthals and that is something most people did not think existed."