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Richer culinary world than ours

Richer culinary world than ours

Neanderthals had a wider array of bitter and sour taste perception, larger tolerance for sampling unfamiliar plants of fermented meats.

They kept some food underwater. They stored meat by drying it or by mashing up with fat and marrow.

Storing plant based foods would require similar processes, by drying or put in water, which could only happen at living places rather than while out and about gathering.

A whole range of options exist with fermentation. Storing in low oxigen conditions allows meat to on the path of putrefaction while still being edible.

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Reconsider the complexity of Neanderthal life by seeing them as kindred hominins: curious, creative, adaptable and skilled.

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