article_snippet.sent: They have a reputation as rather brutish creatures who chomped They way through huge hunks of meat, but it seems Neanderthals may actually have been the first masterchefs.
article_snippet.sent: New research is suggesting that these extinct early humans may have used wild herbs to flavour these extinct early humans food.
article_snippet.sent: Neanderthals (represented in the drawing above) may have been the world's first gourmets - using herbs like yarrow and camomile to flavour the meat that dominated yarrow diet, according to a new scientific paper .
article_snippet.sent: Dr Sabrina Krief, a lecturer at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, and her colleagues suggests Dr Sabrina Krief, a lecturer at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, and her colleagues may have used Dr Sabrina Krief, a lecturer at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, and her colleagues to make food more palatable.
article_snippet.sent: Neanderthals may have cooked stews in the skins of animals, according to some anthropologists.
article_snippet.sent: A study of tooth plaque from the teeth of fossilised Neanderthal remains also suggest that fossilised Neanderthal may have heated grains of barley.
article_snippet.sent: However, there is no evidence that Neanderthals had any pots or pans to cook with.
article_snippet.sent: A study of plaque found on Neanderthal teeth like the one above suggests Professor John Speth, an archaeologist at the University of Michigan ate grains like barley .
article_snippet.sent: Professor John Speth, an archaeologist at the University of Michigan say Neanderthals could also used herbs to improve Professor John Speth, an archaeologist at the University of Michigan culinary creations in the same way.
article_snippet.sent: Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has become well known for Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay subtle use of flavours that contrasts with Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay rather brutish approach in the kitchen, but it seems Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay could also have learned some tips from Neanderthals .
article_snippet.sent: Neanderthals, like the one shown above, may well have been the world's first gourmet chefs, findings suggest .
article_snippet.sent: Neanderthals reason that if this was for medicinal purposes, different animals would eat different plants depending on different animals ailments.
article_snippet.sent: However, the animals in each group all tended to eat different plants with the animals in each group all meat, suggesting the animals in each group all were eating different plants for flavour instead.
article_snippet.sent: Dr Krief said that previous work has dismissed the idea that Neanderthals were eating herbs to flavour food based on the assumption that Neanderthals tastes were very basic.
article_snippet.sent: However, Dr Krief says that if chimpanzees use plants to flavour chimpanzees food, then it is entirely possible that Neanderthals also used herbs and spices.
article_snippet.sent: The presence of cooked carbohydrates, esters, phenols, pyrene and florathene in calculus samples from El Sidron supports the hypothesis that Neanderthals were cooking plant food and perhaps smoking food, confirming that Neanderthals were able to practice different food-processing techniques. '
article_snippet.sent: It is suggested that, among other cooking methods, roasting, heating or even potentially boiling to make soup, stew or stock might have been used by Neanderthals. '
article_snippet.sent: Such a variety of practices, combined with the fact that the samples from El Sidr´on reveal the presence of smoke-related compounds, show that Neanderthals were using food processing at least as complex as flavouring food with plant material.'
article_snippet.sent: Research presented at the Paleoanthropology Society Annual Meeting this week suggests they tended to eat horses, deer and bovids rather than larger game like mammoths.
article_snippet.sent: There is also some evidence from Neanderthal sites in Gibralter that suggests they also liked nuts and wild olives.
article_snippet.sent: Analysis of fossilised Neanderthal faeces has also revealed that while fossilised Neanderthal faeces ate meat, fossilised Neanderthal faeces also had a 'significant intake of plants'.
highlights_snippet.sent: Scientists suggest that prehistoric human cousins used herbs like yarrow and camomile to improve the taste of Scientists food around 50,000 years ago .
  