Neanderthal feces fossil shows they ate veggies....

[Chris0nllyn]

...50,000 years ago.

The discovery of the oldest known human excrement fossil is offering valuable scientific insight into the life of Neanderthals who lived in Spain some 50,000 years ago.

Scientists said Wednesday that they found five samples of human fecal matter at an archaeological site called El Salt, in the floor of a rock shelter where Neanderthals once lived.

Analysis of the samples provided a new understanding of the diet of this extinct human species, offering the first evidence that Neanderthals were omnivores who also ate vegetables as part of their meat-heavy diet, they said.

"So far, it is the only fossil evidence that gives us information of the ingestion and the regular meals of our ancestors," said Ainara Sistiaga, a geoarchaeologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of La Laguna who was one of the researchers.

Neanderthals are the closest extinct relative to our species, Homo sapiens, and disappeared after early modern humans first trekked into Europe from Africa. Neanderthals are believed to have prospered across Europe and Asia from roughly 250,000 to 40,000 years ago and interbred with Homo sapiens before vanishing.

Neanderthals were shorter and stockier than the sleeker Homo sapiens. Many scientists dispute the outdated notion of Neanderthals as dimwitted brutes, pointing to evidence of complex hunting methods, likely communication via spoken language, and use of symbolic objects and pigments, probably for body painting.

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/6/26/fossil-feces-neanderthal.html

 

[Ken King]

...50,000 years ago.







http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/6/26/fossil-feces-neanderthal.html

You know when you have been told "you don't know sh!t" they didn't mean this.

 

[Misfit]

There was corn in it.

 

[MMDad]

Vegetarian neanderthal = bad hunter.

 

[Toxick]

...50,000 years ago.

Any evidence that they threw it at each other when they were pissed off?

 

[Chris0nllyn]

Any evidence that they threw it at each other when they were pissed off?

Well, the story did say they found it "in the floor of a rock shelter", and not on the walls.

 

[Hijinx]

Well, the story did say they found it "in the floor of a rock shelter", and not on the walls.

IMO Scientists should be studying fossilised sh*t instead of man- made Climate Change.

They finally found something they can prove.