Yet More Neanderthal News

We've had quite a few posts on the explosion of new findings on Neaderthals lately, and I thought I'd bring these two to your attention. One claims to have proof that Neanderthals engaged in cannibalism. The other presents the theory that Neanderthal women and children took part in hunting, and that there perhaps was not a gender-based division of labor as seen in most modern human populations. Recent chemical studies have demonstrated that Neanderthals subsisted on an almost total meat diet, so we know their females weren't out gathering plant foods. But it is a very indirect argument, as the researchers admit.