A description of a Neanderthal group preparing food
Luis Montanya / Marta Montanya / Science Photo Library
Neanderthals There may be traditional ways to prepare food especially in each group. The discoveries from two caves today suggested by the northern Israel that residents have dispersed the same kinds of victims in their own different ways.
Modern people, or Homo Sapiensnot the first hominins to prepare and cook food. There is evidence that the neanderthals, for example, living in Europe and Asia up to about 40,000 years ago, use knives to grab their acquisitions, Books a wide range of animals and Their menu was charged with wild vegetables.
To determine more about Neanderthhal’s food culture, Anaëlle Jallon At the University University of Jerusalem and his companions examined evidence of the caves in Amud and Kebara in northern Israel.
These sites, about 70 miles apart, provide a unique opportunity to investigate local culture differences. Rock items, food permits and hearths found in each site revealed that Neanderthals occupied both caves, perhaps during the summer.
“You know the same species of animals to hunt and it is more or less the same scenery,” says Jallon. “This is the same type of time, and the neanderthals of the two ate most of the gases and some falls into a larger animals like boar or auroch.”
However there are some differences. For example, the bones were revealed as a larger amount of Kebara seeks, and many kills were taken to that cave to slaughter.
Jallon and his companions used microscopes to examine bones from the layers of sediment on both sites from between 50,000 and 60,000 years ago, investigating the cuts.
They know that even flint items used the same on both sites, the cutting patterns are different. “The cuts are more variable in their width and depth in Kebara, and to meet them is more likely to concentrate on large clusters and often repeat each other,” says Jallon.
To see if differences can be contaminated with different victims, researchers also look specific to long bones from gazelles found in two sites. It has the same differences.
“We’re talking about two groups that live very close and, let’s say, both cut some meat – but on a site as they cut the bone,” as all the meat, “as Keren Kabukcu At the University of Liverpool, UK.
Previous research watching cuts of bones from more recent societies suggest that the type of variation found in the Neanderthal Butchery none of a lack of skill, but with a difference in technique.
Jallon thinks differences are best explained by intentional lizards choices. May be the neanderthals of amud make their meat more difficult to process, for example, dry it before the cooking, what they mean by the way people can pass it or a larger group of people to hit the meat.
“In behavior as an opportunist like grilling, you want to find the most efficient way of grilling something to get it,” as these social or cultural reasons. “It can be due to group organization or practices known and passed from a generation.”
“The fact that there are differences and some Nuance how technology is used in daily life is not completely shocking,” says Kabukcu. “I think as this question is evaluated, we can see more of the big mid-half-palaeolithic sites.”
Don’t know if the caves occupied at the same time or if non-hidden groups can contact each other. “This is a possibility of the same exact time, but it is also possible hundreds of years or more. We have no resolution to know that,” says Jallon.
But he also said that the pattern of clustered cut marks found in the amud is the same as the oldest layers and the younger layers that keeps returning groups that go on the same principal traditions over the centuries.
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