"And for the last 20 years or so, we've recognized that they were decorating their bodies. That's fairly uncontroversial." Notably, the pigments, we now know, were even used for primitive cave art.

Neanderthals living 90,000 years ago in a seafront cave, in what’s now Portugal, regularly caught crabs, roasted them on coals and ate the cooked flesh, according to a new study.

Archeologists studying the contents of a cave in Portugal found evidence of Neanderthals cooking and eating crabs 90,000 years ago. The spot is called Gruta de Figueira Brava, and it's turned up ...

Neanderthals Dined on Crab 90,000 Years Ago Pieces of shells in a Portuguese cave suggest the early humans cooked and ate crustaceans, according to a new study ...

“Our results add an extra nail to the coffin of the obsolete notion that Neanderthals were primitive cave dwellers who could barely scrape a living off scavenged big-game carcasses,” said Nabais.

Neanderthals in present-day Portugal harvested sea creatures more than 90,000 years ago and used cooking methods that would give them “meaningful nutritional benefits”, reveal the findings of ...

In a cave just south of Lisbon, archaeological deposits conceal a Paleolithic dinner menu. As well as stone tools and charcoal, the site of Gruta de Figueira Brava contains rich deposits of shells ...