Neanderthals in Northern Spain Had Knowledge of Plants' Healing Qualities, Study Reveals

[Moontanman]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120718131348.htm

 

Neanderthals in Northern Spain Had Knowledge of Plants' Healing Qualities, Study Reveals

 

ScienceDaily (July 17, 2012) — An international team of researchers, led by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the University of York, has provided the first molecular evidence that Neanderthals not only ate a range of cooked plant foods, but also understood its nutritional and medicinal qualities.

 

 

A researcher at work in El Sidrón Cave. (Credit: CSIC Comunicación)

[Iota]

http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/caveman-about-the-house/

 

More research about the Neanderthals that might interest you, moontanman. Different ideas about how they lived.