Archaeological findings reveal Neanderthals operated a 'fat factory' 125,000 years ago in what is now Germany, smashing bones ...

The researchers believe that Neanderthals, an extinct species of human known to have lived in that area as far back as ...

An ancient human site in Germany features animal bones that were smashed into small pieces and heated to extract fat 125,000 ...

This practice has been documented as far back as 28,000 years ago, but has not been confirmed at older sites, making ...

The Neanderthals are our closest extinct relatives, and they continue to fascinate as we peer back through tens of thousands ...

New evidence reveals that Neanderthals were rendering fat from animal bones 125,000 years ago.

The hunting and gathering activities of early humans required a high-calorie diet consisting of a variety of ...

According to the authors, the huge cache of bones may have been collected over a period of time before being imported to ...

Archaeological findings reveal Neanderthals operated a 'fat factory' 125,000 years ago in what is now Germany, smashing bones to extract essential fat during seasons when carbohydrates were scarce.

Neanderthals had selected the longest bones that would have contained the most marrow, the study found. An AI generated impression of what the fat factory site may have looked like 125,000 years ago.

New archaeological research, published in Science Advances, provides evidence that Neanderthals were rendering fat from crushed animal bones around 125,000 years ago in the Neumark-Nord region in ...

A new study reveals that Stone Age humans in Germany operated a 'fat factory' to extract nutrients from animal bones.