Neandertals’ tough Stone Age lives
By Bruce Bower
Neandertals that 43,000 years ago inhabited what’s now northern Spain faced periodic food shortages and possibly resorted to cannibalism to survive, according to a new investigation.
These Neandertals evolved shorter, broader faces with a less pronounced slope than northern European Neandertals did, say Antonio Rosas of the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid and his colleagues.