Neanderthals' 125,000-Year-Old Fat Factory Reveals Early Bone Grease Processing
TL;DR
Archaeologists discovered evidence of Neanderthals in Germany around 125,000 years ago systematically processing animal bones to extract fat, indicating advanced planning, organization, and nutritional understanding, challenging stereotypes of Neanderthals as primitive.
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- 125,000-year-old ‘fat factory’ run by Neanderthals discovered in Germany CNN
- Neanderthals operated prehistoric “fat factory” 125,000 years ago on German lakeshore Archaeology News Online Magazine
- 125,000-Year-Old Neanderthal “Fat Factory” Shows They Gorged On Bone Grease IFLScience
- Neanderthals had a 'fat factory' where they processed bones for grease New Scientist
- New evidence suggests Neanderthals were rendering fat nearly 100,000 years before other early humans Phys.org
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