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: Scientists have found traces of compounds found in camomile and yarrow in the hardened plaque of 50,000 year old Neanderthal teeth found in El Sidron, Spain.
article_snippet.sent: At first researchers thought first researchers might have been using these plants as a form of self-medication, but now new findings have presented a different theory.
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.