"Neandertals are often portrayed as very backwards or primitive," said
Amanda Henry, lead researcher and a post-doctoral researcher at GW. "Now
we are beginning to understand that they had some quite advanced
technologies and behaviors."
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101230113723.htm
Yes, they ate fruit, legumes and cooked cereals, and by so doing won the
Darwin award, while primitive homo sapiens wisely continued to gobble
raw fat meat.
That article is so wrong-headed that I wonder who is responsible for the
spin on it.
William