March
31
/ 2020
Scientists have determined Neanderthals had a fish and seafood diet as early as 80,000 years ago and benefited from the raised cognitive powers that up to now have only been attributed to Homo sapiens. The first scientifically verified evidence of Neanderthals eating marine creatures has been found in the cave of Figueira Brava in Portugal, located 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) south of Lisbon on the slopes of the Serra da Arrábida. Neanderthals Had a Fish and Seafood Diet A multidisciplinary international team of researchers, with the participation of the University of Göttingen, determined our distant Neanderthal cousins ate mussels, fish and other marine life. This was established after Dr. Dirk Hoffmann’s team at the Göttingen Isotope Geology Department dated “flowstone
