Goldfield research on Neanderthal cooking gains publicity
Anna Goldfield and Ross Booton’s (former volunteer, Environmental Archaeology Laboratory, and current Ph.D. student, University of Sheffield) recent poster presentation at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting used mathematical modeling to consider how differential rates of meat cooking between Neanderthals and Anatomically Modern Humans might lead to differential survival of the two species. It has gained considerable media attention, including coverage in the Daily Mail, Archaeology magazine, and Discovery News.
This work is a component of Anna’s dissertation research into differences in reindeer carcass processing between Neanderthals and Anatomically Modern Humans during glacial periods of the Pleistocene.