Hi Joan,

If the early Neandertals were in ketosis, which may have been the case 
given the marks on bones at excavations, they may not have been ravenous 
as  you suggest. When in ketosis, hunger is not a pressing thing.
Best Wishes,
Ron


Joan Howe wrote:
>  A recent re-examination of Neanderthal bones has revealed butcher marks on all of them.  Put this in the context of the Neanderthal as having the physique of our top athletes and thus needing about 4000 calories a day.  This would have been a creature that was always hungry.  The friend who told me of these recent findings has theorized that Neanderthals have left their mark in European folk memory as the trolls of our fairy stories: human-shaped, immensely strong, not too bright, ate people.
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