(Photo: der Spiegel)
In a dig at Caours, near Abbeville, France, archeologists found evidence of a Neanderthal “butcher’s shop” to which animals as large as rhinoceros, elephant and aurochs, the forerunner of the cow, were dragged and butchered about 125,000 years ago.
Scientists said the animal bones showed signs of having been sawn, crushed or stripped of their meat by flint tools.
It’s not known what these prehistoric French served with their rhino steak.
Even though the site is not far away from present-day Belgium, it’s unlikely the archeologists will discover that the Neanderthalers were the inventors of the steak-frites. Potatoes didn’t hit France until some five centuries ago.
[tags]France,prehistory,Neanderthalers[/tags]
