Neanderthals had a taste for fat, and they worked hard to get it. Long before humans built cities or invented writing, these ...

Roughly 125,000 years ago, Neanderthals gathered near a lake to extract the grease contained within animal bones. To do so, ...

What we eat helps shape who we are. That’s why paleoanthropologists are so fascinated by ancient diets; they hold clues to ...

Archaeological findings reveal Neanderthals operated a 'fat factory' 125,000 years ago in what is now Germany, smashing bones ...

The researchers believe that Neanderthals, an extinct species of human known to have lived in that area as far back as 125,000 years ago, smashed the marrow-rich bones into fragments with stone ...

An ancient human site in Germany features animal bones that were smashed into small pieces and heated to extract fat 125,000 ...

A team of archaeologists has announced a major finding relating to the Neanderthals. They announced the finding in the ...

Nord, Germany, systematically transported and processed the bones of at least 172 large mammals to extract nutrient-rich ...

According to the authors, the huge cache of bones may have been collected over a period of time before being imported to ...

Neanderthals had selected the longest bones that would have contained the most marrow, the study found. An AI generated impression of what the fat factory site may have looked like 125,000 years ago.

This practice has been documented as far back as 28,000 years ago, but has not been confirmed at older sites, making ...

Neanderthals boiled bones in ‘fat factories’ to enrich their lean diet Germany digs reveal a large-scale operation 100,000 years earlier than oldest known fat rendering by modern humans.