Radical Anthropology<p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Neanderthals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Neanderthals</span></a> developed extraordinary technology for extraction of fat, vital nutrition from large mammal bones</p><p>'What makes Neumark-Nord so exceptional is the preservation of an entire landscape, not just a single site,’ notes Leiden-based author Prof. Wil Roebroeks. ‘We see Neanderthals hunting and minimally butchering deer in one area, processing elephants intensively in another, and—as this study shows—rendering fat from hundreds of mammal skeletons in a centralized location. There’s even some evidence of plant use, which is rarely preserved. This broad range of behaviors in the same landscape gives us a much richer picture of their culture.’'</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Pleistocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pleistocene</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/diet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diet</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>archaeology</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025/07/neanderthals-ran-fat-factories-125000-years-ago" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/</span><span class="invisible">2025/07/neanderthals-ran-fat-factories-125000-years-ago</span></a></p>