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