Neanderthals operated a ‘fat factory’ 125,000 years ago, research shows
Neanderthals, who roamed what is now modern Germany around 125,000 years ago, may have engaged in a systematic process to extract and consume fat from animal bones, a practice that researchers refer to as “fat factories.” Archaeologists digging at the Neumark-Nord site, an ancient lake landscape, uncovered thousands of bones from at least 172 large […]