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Proof that Neanderthals ate crabs is another ‘nail in the coffin’ for primitive cave dweller stereotypes - Science & research news | Frontiers,by Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer Scientists studying archaeological remains at Gruta da Figueira Brava, Portugal, discovered that Neanderthals were harvesting shellfish to eat – including brown crabs, where they preferred larger specimens and cooked them in fires. Archeologists say this disproves the idea that eating marine foods gave early modern humans' brains the

Proof that Neanderthals ate crabs is another ‘nail in the coffin’ for primitive cave dweller stereotypes – Science & research news | Frontiers

by Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer Scientists studying archaeological remains at Gruta da Figueira Brava, Portugal, discovered that Neanderthals were harvesting shellfish to eat – including brown crabs, where they preferred larger specimens and cooked them in fires. Archeologists say this disproves the idea that eating marine foods gave early modern humans' brains the