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Did Neanderthals eat inner bark?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Dennis M. Sandgathe  and
Brian Hayden
Dennis M. Sandgathe
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A-1S6, Canada
Brian Hayden
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A-1S6, Canada
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Using ethnographic parallels the authors identify ‘bark peelers’ used in Ice Age Europe. They suggest that Palaeolithic Europeans used these to extract edible and nourishing new growth from the trunks of spring trees.

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PalaeolithicEuropeNeanderthalplant-usebark peelersbone tools

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Antiquity , Volume 77 , Issue 298 , December 2003 , pp. 709 - 718
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2003

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