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Cueva de Figueira Brava



Their homes within the three doors look almost unassailable.

Thanks.

P.S. I forgot to mention your link was terrific. Leaves us more to think about!

Sea animals of course swim close to lands and could be easier to trap or beach. I think this ancient Inuit method to gather mussels was much the same for Neanderthals when they gathered shellfish in their iced over lands.

Inuits in northern Canada risk their lives to gather mussels under the frozen sea ice. But it's dangerous - the tide is only out for 45 minutes and the ice could collapse on them at any moment.

Thank you for sharing this.

It will be impossible to forget.

Maybe not as a first choice.

evidence of tools specific to obtaining, preparing, and eating fish and seafood. Harpoons, small picks for scraping mussels out of shells. They might have used nets, but those decay unless the right preservation circumstances exist. Maybe they also had boats for going out a short distance into the sea to get the sharks and dolphins.

These dates precede earliest Homo sapiens in Europe, so maybe Sapiens in Europe learned to get and eat seafood from Neanderthal. Or, maybe the practice started in Africa before either one of them moved out of Africa.

Clambakes are apparently a very old tradition in our ancestry.