"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