Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire. Neandertals' bones preserve a story of their consuming passion for
flesh. Telltale chemicals in two fossils now portray Neandertals as
avid meat eaters who hunted often and skillfully. Neandertals
lived in Europe and the Middle East from about 130,000 to 28,000 years
ago. The new information counters a theory that they mainly scavenged
scraps of meat from abandoned carcasses, says a team led by
archaeologist Michael P. Richards of the University of Oxford
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