October
18
/ 2022
A team of scientists from the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), in collaboration with colleagues from several scientific institutions in Germany, have just published a new study of Neanderthal dietary practices in the journal PNAS. Applying a newly developed technique for studying the chemical signatures of ancient tooth enamel, they’ve been able to determine that a Neanderthal living in a cave on the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Paleolithic period (50,000 years ago) consumed a strictly carnivorous diet. This is not the first study to return such a finding. It is nevertheless a unique and important discovery, since it resulted from the creation of a fresh analytical methodology that could be used to search for details about the
