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Cavemen
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You might picture Neanderthals as cavemen gnawing on bones around a campfire. Which wouldn’t be ? But Neanderthals may have also dined on roasted vegetables and known a bit about medicinal plants too. So says a study in the journal Science of Nature. Researchers hardened dental plaque from five Neanderthals found in El Sidrón cave, in northern Spain. Yes, 50,000-year-old dental plaque. And they found a lot lurking between the teeth. Like evidence of nuts, grasses and green veggies, traces of wood smoke, and tiny, intact starch granules, proof Neanderthals ate their carbs. And in one individual, they detected compounds found in the herbs chamomile and yarrow. The herbs have no nutritional value, and since Neanderthals did have the gene to detect the herbs’ bitter taste, the researchers that the cave dwellers were on them not as food—but to self-medicate.
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