Scientists find out what Siberian Neanderthals ate

A group of scientists discovered that diet of Neanderthals Siberians included plants and animals, according to international research leading the University of the Spanish city of Valencia (UV). The experts, both from Spain, What Germany, Canada, Holland Yes Russia, have documented this diet through a combination of analysis of stable isotopes and identification of plant micro-remains of an individual.

The international research team took bone samples Yes dental stones Neanderthal remains, dated between 60 thousand and 50 thousand years from the deposit of Chagyrskaya, in the Altai mountains to the south Siberia, just 100 kilometers from the cave Denisova.

This region is considered “very dynamic” because Neanderthals also interacted there with their Asian cousins, the denisovanos.

The work was done both on the basis of Western Siberia, where there are studies which explain that the modern humans answered with great mobility, as in oriental, where there is a lack of jobs analyze the behavior and subsistence of the Neanderthals, who inhabited this Siberian forest steppe, more arid and colder than that of the west.

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The species occupied western Eurasia before disappearing and, although it was believed to extend to what is today Uzbekistan, in recent years, it has been discovered that 2 thousand kilometers further east to the Altai Mountains in Siberia.

Analysis of the stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes of a jawbone, meanwhile, revealed that this individual had a relatively high trophic level relative to the local food web. This indicates that they have consumed a large amount of animal protein hunt large and medium sized animals.

The researchers identified, by optical microscopy, a set of plant particles preserved in dental calculus from the same individual, as well as others from the site.

Micro-remains of plants indicated that the species also consumed several plants different.

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The area was tempting enough that Neanderthals colonized the area at least twice, but genetic data indicates that they barely held and they only lived in small groups that were constantly in Danger of extinction.

Domingo Carlos Salazar, who coordinated the research explained, “Even in adverse climatic environments, Neanderthals were able to have a varied diet. It was truly surprising that these Eastern Neanderthals had very similar livelihoods to those of Western Eurasia. “