Posted on 01/18/2010 1:38:03 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Recently at Discovery News I told you about Neanderthal-made shell jewelry that suggests these hominids were as smart and creative as modern humans were at the time the jewelry was made, 50,000 years ago. University of Bristol archaeologist Joao Zilhao, who led the project, told me about some other interesting discoveries he and his team made about Neanderthals. One concerns how they harvested shellfish for consumption... Note that the Neanderthals didn't wear their dinner discards, just as we don't today. (Or usually don't. Maybe someone out there has made a necklace out of last night's oyster or lobster remains.) The Neanderthals instead chose different shells based on beauty for use as jewelry/body ornamentation. These species included Pecten (pilgrim shell), Glycymeris (dog cockle) and Acanthocardia (Moroccan cockle). The shells accumulate on sea bottoms "where wave action throws them onto the beaches where Neanderthals could harvest them, must as you or I would when holidaying in the summer," Zilhao said. Getting back to the shellfish as food and not art, for consumers even today, shellfish pose challenges. As Zilhao and his team point out, "They rot very rapidly and must be eaten or cooked extremely fresh." By packaging the harvested shellfish in water-soaked algae, the Neanderthals helped to preserve the shellfish from the point of collection to the place where they ate them, such as Aviones Cave in Spain. This cave is right near the entrance of Cartagena harbor, so it provided "rooms" with a view as well as water resources. Algae remains were found among the shells within the cave. We always hear about the big game hunting talents of Neanderthals, but this new research suggests that at least some groups enjoyed surf and turf meals. Or surf one night and maybe turf the next.
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So easy....even a caveman can make it!
>>Neanderthals Enjoyed Surf and Turf Meals<<
That explains my waiter in the Red Lobster last week...
And who wouldn’t?
I always like see the Indian shell middens down on the coast. I like to think it was a hell of an oyster roast. Little deer strapback on the side.
Neanderthals are humans... well, sort of, anyway.
I thought they mostly ate at Rock-o Bell.
“A brave man it was who first an oyster et”
I don’t think they are even close to being human. Last I heard they were a dead end and the DNA pretty much proved it.
They are classified as a member of genus Homo, but as a separate species.
They were close enough to H. sapiens there is a possibility they were interfertile.
and sometimes they ate at Jack-in-the-Rox...
Humans and neanderthals inter-bred. The “caucasoid” population encompassing the region from Europe to northern India have elements of neanderthal genetics, AFAIK.
At Jack-in-the-Rox where they ordered Brontosaurusburgers.
LOL!
That explains a few knuckle draggers I have meet....
Lots of them still around at democrat underground!
If there was interbreeding the DNA would shave shown that which it did not.
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