Rebecca Wragg Sykes

Catching birds has long been believed an advanced hunting technique, so how did Neanderthals do it?

Strict carnivory actually starves the body, terminating in protein poisoning

Niggling assumptions persist that they must have been doing something fundamentally ‘wrong’ to explain why they disappeared, even though the archaeological reality leaves claims about our superiority somewhat hanging. Even if not at all sites or in such large degree, as a species they’re far closer than used to be believed to the ‘broad spectrum’ diet that supposedly underlay early H. sapiens’ success