July 28, 2012
Neanderthals Ate Their Greens If you accept the belief that our distant, somewhat hirsute ancestors subsisted solely on mammoth steaks and bone marrow, be prepared to rewrite your theme menu. Thanks to research being carried out on Spain’s 50,000-year-old El Sidrón remains, it’s more likely that they were serving up salads. The news comes thanks to dental records (of a sort). Using sophisticated methods, scientists were able to discern from the teeth of these neanderthal remains that the diet leaned heavily toward vegetarianism, going so far as to suggest that grilled vegetables—and maybe even medicinal herbs—were common fare. Carne asada? Less so. Seeing as leafy greens rarely trample you, maul you, or gnaw on your head in the course of gathering them, I don’t know if I can blame these neanderthals. I’d probably opt for the easy route, too. —MN

Neanderthals Ate Their Greens

If you accept the belief that our distant, somewhat hirsute ancestors subsisted solely on mammoth steaks and bone marrow, be prepared to rewrite your theme menu. Thanks to research being carried out on Spain’s 50,000-year-old El Sidrón remains, it’s more likely that they were serving up salads.

The news comes thanks to dental records (of a sort). Using sophisticated methods, scientists were able to discern from the teeth of these neanderthal remains that the diet leaned heavily toward vegetarianism, going so far as to suggest that grilled vegetables—and maybe even medicinal herbs—were common fare. Carne asada? Less so.

Seeing as leafy greens rarely trample you, maul you, or gnaw on your head in the course of gathering them, I don’t know if I can blame these neanderthals. I’d probably opt for the easy route, too. —MN

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