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    The Neanderthal diet:
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    • DNA evidence suggests they were meat-lovers, dining on woolly rhinoceros and wild sheep.
    • Some Neanderthals had a more plant-based diet, including mushrooms, pine nuts, moss, and tree bark.
    • Isotopic data indicates they were as carnivorous as polar bears or wolves, relying heavily on large terrestrial herbivores like reindeer, woolly mammoth, and woolly rhinoceros.
    • Starch grains found in dental plaque provide evidence that Neanderthals also ate plants.

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    What did Neanderthals eat? - Curious - Australian Academy of Science
    Scientists can extract DNA and proteins from dental calculus, a hardened plaque on fossil teeth, to learn about Neanderthal diet and lifestyle. Neanderthals ate meat, plants, mushr…
    Australian Academy of Science
    https://www.science.org.au/curious/people-medicine/what-did-neanderthals-eat
    Neanderthal behaviour, diet, and disease inferred from ancient DNA in ...
    Archaeological and isotopic data from the last glacial cycle (around 120–12 ka) suggest that Neanderthals were as carnivorous as polar bears or wolves6 with a diet heavily based on…
    Nature
    https://www.nature.com/articles/nature21674.pdf
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    Homo neanderthalensis - The Smithsonian's Human Origins Program
    Isotopic chemical analyses of Neanderthal bones also tell scientists the average Neanderthal’s diet consisted of a lot of meat. Scientists have also found plaque on the remains of …
    Smithsonian Institution
    https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/homo-neanderthalensis
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