Posted on 02/12/2023 10:09:33 PM PST by SunkenCiv
In a cave just south of Lisbon, archaeological deposits conceal a Paleolithic dinner menu. As well as stone tools and charcoal, the site of Gruta de Figueira Brava contains rich deposits of shells and bones with much to tell us about the Neanderthals that lived there—especially about their meals. A study published in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology shows that 90,000 years ago, these Neanderthals were cooking and eating crabs...
A wide variety of shellfish remains were found in the archaeological remains Nabais and her colleagues studied, but the shellfish in the undisturbed Paleolithic deposits are overwhelmingly represented by brown crabs. Their size was estimated by calculating the size of the carapace relative to the crabs' pincers, which preserve better than other parts of the crab, so are more likely to survive to be found by scientists. The archaeologists assessed the breakage on the shells, looked for butchery or percussion marks, and determined whether the crabs had been exposed to high heat.
Nabais and her colleagues found that the crabs were mostly large adults which would yield about 200g of meat. By studying the patterns of damage on the shells and claws, they ruled out the involvement of other predators: there were no carnivore or rodent marks, and the patterns of breakage didn't reflect predation by birds. Crabs are evasive, but Neanderthals could have harvested brown crabs of this size from low tide pools in the summer.
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The claws do require a bit of extra work. I prefer a nutcracker for the job, personally.
So I tried to apologize but you are a nasty piece of work evidently.
You’re a bully!!
I prefer nutcrackers too, but they didn’t hand them out to everyone, IIRC.
I am pretty adept, though in my enthusiasm, have cut myself a few times over the years.
Add as your posting history provides you are a dyed in the wool Pootie supporter
Find some ossified truffles in a cave and their reputation will really be elevated!
Add as your posting history provides you are a dyed in the wool Pootie supporter
I knew it. If that’s your beef you should have said so in the first place. And you like sniffing Biden’s sharts. Bye.....
There’s an old anti-Neandertal bias, seems to have started with Virchow. Also, since Neandertal roots aren’t specifically in Africa...
but early recipes for Joe’s Stone Crab dipping sauce were abundant. ))))
Nope..
It was the oyster that defined the hungriest Neanderthal ever.
Rabbits and Deer run faster than crabs. Crabs run faster than Oysters and Seaweed. I’m guessing that Crabs, Oysters and Seaweed were frequently on the menu until you got into the Great Basin including White Sands.
No, they didn’t. They are the ancestors of most living people, as a matter of fact. Stop talking out of your ass.
I’m betting that their introductory fine dining also included escargo a la cargolades. (For those not in the know, cargolades is a snail dish from Southern France that is snails grilled in their shells.)
Nah, it was a really hungry Neanderthal that ate the first oyster. It was a develoment of those Neanderthals who were among the first sexual perverts.
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