Discover how ancient humans scaled up their food production to survive in harsh environments.

The Neanderthals were said to be running a “fat factory” around 125,000 years ago in modern-day Germany. A paper published in ...

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

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

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

The balance of different varieties of atoms inside a person’s teeth can reveal a week-by-week record of rainfall and protein ...

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

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.

Nord, Germany, systematically transported and processed the bones of at least 172 large mammals to extract nutrient-rich ...

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