Stone Age seafood fans

Neandertals may have had diets just as diverse as those of modern humans

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Neandertals are often thought of as Ice Age hunters who craved nothing so much as a juicy mammoth steak. But these ancient human cousins favored surf-and-turf when the opportunity arose, a new investigation finds.

In two caves on the eastern side of the Rock of Gibraltar, scientists have unearthed evidence that Mediterranean-dwelling Neandertals ate a varied diet of land and sea animals that put them on a culinary par with Stone Age Homo sapiens, or modern humans.

A view from the sea shows three caves at the base of the Rock of Gibraltar that were once frequented by Neandertals.