Radical AnthropologyPressure on #Neanderthals in S Italy, during aridity in Middle #Palaeolithic to get #fats, when carbs less available. The same kind of thing would have been true for #Homosapiens in dry-season contexts, facing possible protein toxicity/'rabbit starvation'. For such large-brained humans this was a serious energetic/dietary constraint.
Frontiers | Neanderthal had a “crush” on fats. Macronutrient estimation in Middle Paleolithic (Late Mousterian) hunter-gatherers of southern Italy
During the Late Mousterian period Apulia (southeastern Italy) was characterized by frequent and prolonged aridity that could have caused the scarcity of vege...