“”Our results add an extra nail to the coffin of the obsolete notion that Neanderthals were primitive cave dwellers who could barely scrape a living off scavenged big-game carcasses,” said Nabais.”
More worthless “research”. Like Homo Sapiens to which they are related it is not surprising that they would be omnivores. It’s also not surprising that they had fire for cooking. Does this anthropologist think proof is required to show that Neanderthals didn’t spend 24/7/365 in a cave? That they had to go out and hunt? This was known decades ago.
There’s an old anti-Neandertal bias, seems to have started with Virchow. Also, since Neandertal roots aren’t specifically in Africa...