New research suggests that they smashed animal bones into tiny pieces before boiling them to extract the high-calorie grease ...

The Neumark-Nord site, discovered back in the 1980s, covers roughly 70 acres. In this region, Neanderthals hunted and ...

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

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 hunting and gathering activities of early humans required a high-calorie diet consisting of a variety of ...

The researchers believe that Neanderthals, an extinct species of human known to have lived in that area as far back as ...

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

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

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

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

A new study shows evidence of Neanderthal “fat factories” dating back as far as 125,000 years ago. The study found ...