Radical Anthropology<p>Pressure on <a href="https://c.im/tags/Neanderthals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neanderthals</span></a> in S Italy, during aridity in Middle <a href="https://c.im/tags/Palaeolithic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palaeolithic</span></a> to get <a href="https://c.im/tags/fats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fats</span></a>, when carbs less available. The same kind of thing would have been true for <a href="https://c.im/tags/Homosapiens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Homosapiens</span></a> in dry-season contexts, facing possible protein toxicity/'rabbit starvation'. For such large-brained humans this was a serious energetic/dietary constraint.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaeology</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mousterian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mousterian</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/diet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diet</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/environmental-archaeology/articles/10.3389/fearc.2025.1558698/full" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">frontiersin.org/journals/envir</span><span class="invisible">onmental-archaeology/articles/10.3389/fearc.2025.1558698/full</span></a></p>