Assignment 2

Neanderthals Took Hunt for Food to the Sea

New findings suggest Neanderthals where seafood eaters.
While doing excavations in Gibraltar, paleontologists found what appeared to be evidence supporting that Neanderthals ate mollusks, fish and marine mammals more than 30,000 years ago. The caves suggest there were at least three periods of use from the Neanderthals, and most bones were from immature mammals
A group of Spanish and English scientists of National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid and the Natural History Museum in London respectively identified the remains and reported them in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Some bones had stone carvings stating that tools where used and a precarious oven was found, evidence shows it was not used for cooking, but for preparing the skins of the sea mammals.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/science/23obfish.html