article_snippet.sent: A team of archaeologists at Boston University and the University of Bath used computer model the amount of energy Neanderthals would have been able to get from A team of archaeologists at Boston University and the University of Bath food without cooking it compared to humans that were.
article_snippet.sent: Modern humans who regularly cooked Eight talons taken from a white-tailed eagle found at Neanderthal site in Krapina in Croatia food could have then channeled this extra energy into growing Modern humans who regularly cooked their food population and searching longer for food during lean periods.
article_snippet.sent: Anna Goldfield, an archaeologist at Boston University who led the research, said: 'Cooking makes meat more easily digestible, and that means that the calories that would've been used to digest raw meat can go to other uses. '
article_snippet.sent: I determined, importantly, that a diet of cooked meat meant that either foraging groups could travel a bit farther in foraging groups range of gathering, or since foraging groups were getting more out of a set of resources, foraging groups could stay longer in the same landscape.'
article_snippet.sent: her said: 'My real aim was to specifically look at the impact of cooking on metabolism, and whether regular cooking of food might have been an advantage for Neanderthals. '
article_snippet.sent: Miss Goldfield said: 'Initial tests indimcate that cooking lean meat increases cooking lean meat caloric value sufficiently to offset up to 3.7 days’ worth of locomotion, or 12 kills per year, thus extending the carrying capacity of a landscape patch, particularly during periods of resource scarcity.'
highlights_snippet.sent: Researchers found cooking would have increased the number of calories available .
  