https://www.europesays.com/uk/339536/ Study: Genetic Variant Inherited from Neanderthals Reduces Activity of Key Muscle Enzyme #AMPD1 #DNA #Enzyme #Europe #Gene #Genetics #Genome #Homo #HomoNeanderthalensis #HomoSapiens #human #muscle #Neanderthal #Protein #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom
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Ancient #skull may have been half #human, half #Neanderthal child
CT scans hint at hybridization, but it will take extracting and analyzing a #DNA sample to be certain.
Neanderthals and #Homosapiens traded #genes frequently during the period when their populations overlapped. "The two came in contact as modern humans began their major expansion out of Africa, which occurred roughly 60,000 years ago."
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/07/ancient-skull-may-have-been-half-human-half-neanderthal-child/
Ars Technica · Ancient skull may have been half human, half Neanderthal child
Deport this piece of shit!
#Neanderthal accused of assaulting #police at #ManchesterAirport says he "didn't know two officers were women" https://share.google/Jx4jFe7bsNIO6YLA4
Sky · Man accused of assaulting police at Manchester Airport says he didn't know two officers were women
Different Neanderthal clans had their signature dishes, among them rotten meat with maggots.
A series of recent investigations suggests that the first human communities passed on their particular culinary traditions between generations.
El País · Different Neanderthal clans had their signature dishes, among them rotten meat with maggots.
There's another Scientific Take making the rounds on Mastodon and.. It makes logical and intuitive sense that the #Neanderthal fat rendering plant had a social and societal aspect to it. It seems obvious
But outright dismissing what subject matter experts who have studied this topic area are comfortable stating based on well-established facts -- that protein poisoning is a potentially lethal disease in hunter civilizations -- based on "common sense" helped devolve some of our scientific society
Neanderthals turned cave lion bones into multifunctional tools 130,000 years ago, study reveals
A recent discovery in Belgium’s Scladina Cave has unveiled the oldest known multi-purpose tools made from the bones of a cave lion, offering evidence of Neanderthal resourcefulness and intelligence...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/07/neanderthals-turned-lion-bones-into-multifunctional-tools/
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- #Neanderthal remains show evidence of healed wounds and even medicinal plant treatments, indicating they were intelligent and empathetic toward each other? This contrasts with notions of Neanderthals as dumb or uncaring cavemen.
- the remains of a 6 or 7-year-old child w/severe genetic impairments has been found? This indicates this vulnerable child was cared for, kept safe, & fed by the community, further dispelling notions of Neanderthals as savage and brutal.
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I’m listening to a #history podcast about the #StoneAge & I learned some new and/or corrected information about Neanderthals. Did you know:
-most of the modern population has small amounts of #Neanderthal DNA? Neanderthals & Homo sapiens commonly interbred before N’s extinction.
- the idea that Neanderthals hunted big animals by driving them off cliffs is a Victorian misconception? They actually used risky & complex bottling, ambush, and close-range techniques when hunting.
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It is being relaised that Neanderthals had a varied diet according to their culture. Examining cut marks on animal bones revealed that Neanderthals living just 70km apart were choosing different animals to eat, or different cuts of meat from those animals. One group had a wider taste in meat, whilst another preferred their food to be dried or more rotten. This latter type of food is harder to prepare and so leaves more cut marks. https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/07/local-cuisine-was-on-the-menu-at-cafe-neanderthal/
Ars Technica · Local cuisine was on the menu at Cafe Neanderthal
Neanderthal neighbors cooked differently, study suggests tradition
It turns out, Neanderthals likely had something akin to “family recipes.” Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Is…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #RecipeTopics #AmudandKebaracaves #animalcutmarks #biology #butcherypractice #Energy&Environment #Neanderthal #northernisrael #Recipes #uniquefoodpreparation
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2183713/neanderthal-neighbors-cooked-differently-study-suggests-tradition/
Neanderthal neighbors cooked differently, study suggests tradition https://www.diningandcooking.com/2183713/neanderthal-neighbors-cooked-differently-study-suggests-tradition/ #AmudAndKebaraCaves #AnimalCutMarks #biology #ButcheryPractice #Energy&Environment #Neanderthal #NorthernIsrael #RecipeTopics #Recipes #UniqueFoodPreparation
200,000 years of recurrent #Neanderthal and #Homosapiens interaction.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/07/250713032519.htm
ScienceDailyPrinceton study maps 200,000 years of Human–Neanderthal interbreedingFor centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to AI-powered genetic research, scientists have revealed a far more entangled history. Modern humans and Neanderthals didn’t just cross paths; they repeatedly interbred, shared genes, and even merged populations over nearly 250,000 years. These revelations suggest that Neanderthals never truly disappeared — they were absorbed. Their legacy lives on in our DNA, reshaping our understanding of what it means to be human.
Nice discussion under this posting of the #Neanderthal 'fat factories' at Neumark-Nord125 Kya
These constraints also apply for African end-of-dry season conditions when lack of carbs and fats, and would have been critical for last phase of brain size increase in our speciation
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Today I learned about 'rabbit starvation' and how Neanderthals avoided it.
When you're a hunter-gatherer and it's winter, you may try to survive by eating only meat - like rabbits, but also deer and other game. But this gives you too much protein and not enough carbohydrates and fat: most of this meat is very lean. If you eat enough lean meat to get all the calories you need, you can die from an overdose of protein! It's called 'protein toxicity'.
Hunter-gatherers in this situation sometimes throw away the 'steaks' and 'roasts' - the thighs and shoulders of the animals they kill - or feed them to their dogs. They need FAT to survive! So they focus on eating the fatty parts, including bone marrow.
So, in some cultures, while the men are out hunting, the women spend time making bone grease. This takes a lot of work. They take bones and break them into small pieces with a stone hammer. They boil them for several hours. The fat floats to the top. Then they let the water cool and skim off the fat.
There's been evidence for people doing this as far back as 28,000 BC. But now some scientists have found a Neanderthal 'bone grease factory' that's 125,000 years old!
This was during the last interglacial, in Germany. In a site near a lake, called Neumark-Nord, Neanderthals killed a lot of bison, horses and deer and crushed their bones, leaving behind tens of thousands of small bone fragments.
• Lutz Kindler et al, Large-scale processing of within-bone nutrients by Neanderthals, 125,000 years ago, https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adv1257
Thanks to @sarahtaber@mastodon.online for spotting this!
A child's skull, dating 140 Kya from #Skhul Cave, may show both #Homosapiens and #Neanderthal traits. But Chris Stringer not convinced and views fossils as primarily Hs
A new analysis of the neurocranium and mandible of the Skhūl I child: Taxonomic conclusions and cultural implications - ScienceDirect https://share.google/Y5g7uEFpJe3cYi9sx
Live Science · 140,000-year-old child's skull may have been part modern human, part Neanderthal — but not everyone is convinced
Conspiracy idea: a dating app is deliberately pairing up the people with the highest proportion of neanderthal DNA, in the hope that they will breed.
AO THROWBACK - The results of an extensive analysis of a 50,000-year-old toe bone belonging to a Neanderthal woman, which was unearthed in a cave in 2010, have been long awaited. https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/entire-neanderthal-genome-finally-mapped-amazing-results-001138
Ancient mystery unlocked! 
CT scans of a 140,000-year-old skull from Israel suggest a child with both human and Neanderthal traits—a possible hybrid. Scientists say DNA analysis is needed for proof, but this could reshape our human story. #Paleoanthropology #HumanOrigins #Neanderthal #newz
Ars Technica · Ancient skull may have been half human, half Neanderthal child
follow the #Neanderthal from the dig to the #genome lab in a 1:25 model archaeowonderland: https://arc-tech.de/en/model-construction/mettmann/ #science #anthropology #archaeology
ArcTech · Mettmann - ArcTechFor the Neanderthal Museum in Mettmann, we created a didactic model that illustrates the work of modern archaeology to visitors. On a scale of 1:25, we created an outdoor excavation site, a cave excavation inside a rock and a total of five laboratories on the topics of 3D finds documentation, anthropology, 14C dating, isotope analysis […]
Archaeologists found a 50,000-year-old bone flute in Slovenia—possibly the oldest musical instrument ever made. And it plays actual notes! 
This discovery challenges everything we thought we knew about Neanderthals.
Listen to its sound + story 
https://www.utubepublisher.in/2025/06/neanderthal-flute-oldest-musical-instrument-divje-babe-slovenia.html
Now for something different (and a nicer shade of Neanderthal)
Open CultureHear the World’s Oldest Instrument, the “Neanderthal Flute,” Dating Back Over 43,000 YearsSeveral years ago, we brought you a transcription and a couple of audio interpretations of the oldest known song in the world, discovered in the ancient Syrian city of Ugarit and dating back to the 14th century B.C.E..