What Did 70,000 Year Old Food Taste Like? | Neanderthal Food
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Published 2023-02-09
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Let see if we can get an idea of what Neanderthal's food tasted like.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
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1:26 What are we making?
2:55 Starting the recipe.
3:46 Rock tools.
5:11 Shaping patties.
5:54 Cooking on a rock.
6:51 Taste test.
Today's recipe was inspired by this Guardian article: www.theguardian.com/science/2022/nov/26/surprising…
'Oldest cooked leftovers ever found suggest Neanderthals were foodies': www.theguardian.com/science/2022/nov/23/oldest-coo…
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All Comments (21)
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My uncle was a neanderthal! This was his favorite recipe, thanks Emmy 😊
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To find out that Neanderthals had access to wheat berries is interesting because the paleo diet was built under the assumption that Neanderthals did not eat wheat, making that fad even more ridiculous
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Emmy - if you decide to retry this, or another Neanderthal recipe (should you find one), they almost certainly did have salt. Most Denisovan and Neanderthal camps are near salt licks, and the paleo-archaeologists I've talked to don't think that's a coincidence. 😊
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Although it would be a lot of research, I absolutely would love to see more videos like this. Using primal cooking techniques. I always love any of your historical videos, like depression recipes and such. I greatly admire your channel and the information it holds. If there’s anything more like this video you can come up with I think it would be an interesting, educational and hopefully successful for your channel. Thanks so much for the content you work hard to create
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I bet if I had limited food choices as a Neanderthal I would’ve probably been really excited to eat this, it sounds kinda good
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If you were to soak the beans in ocean water, i bet it would give you the salt that it needs. Coastal neanderthals would have used this as well as seaweed and coastal plants to do this as well, but i wonder what, if any, things could be used similarily away from the coastal regions.
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I have to check the expiration date but I think there's some cottage cheese in the back of my frig that's roughly 70,000 years old.
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Last week I went to see the green comet C/2022 E3 ZTF, which has not been visible since the Neanderthals were around 50,000 years ago. It was so cool to see something so ancient, and this video came out at just the right time!
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I kind of feel like I am watching Tasting History with Max Miller! Love this!
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It was discovered that in the Gibraltar settlement they also ate mussels and fish
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I think I'm going to try a version of this: with garlic, black pepper, plus a bit of leek, this would be a great baseline patty or veggie meatball! Watching you prepare the mix, I was reminded both of lentil Kofta balls, & chickpea falafel I've made: the soaked beans usually have enough water to hold the blend together. Thank you, this was great!
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Before I find out, it almost sounds like falafel 😳😃 That would mean ppl have been eating falafel for tens of thousands of YEARS 🤯
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Ooh my time to shine! The big stones you used here are slate, and I think the little stone you used (a bit weathered so I'd have to have a closer look) was a granite or something similar (same as your mortar and pestle) :) (source: geologist)
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This is just wild that we can even have a single tiny clue what neanderthals were eating so many thousands of years ago. Unimaginable, almost. Yet, here we are. Thanks for the cool, science-y, anthropology-y recipe, Emmy!
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I wish I’d known about this kind of thing when my kids were little and learning about our ancient hominid brethren. I might just try this for myself! It sounds fascinating. I wonder how flat you can make it and have it still stick together, like a tortilla or flatbread. It might make a great Neanderthal taco, with some sort of game meat or even fish.
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I would love to see more of these historic/ancient recipes. Fun!
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Hello Emmy, I don't know if it would interest you but in 2007 Ray Mears a famous British outdoorsman made a short TV series for the BBC accompanied later by a big glossy book about the foods of our ancestors called Ray Mears wild food, of course the contents are mostly UK based, he was accompanied by a Archeo-botanist they tried things like acorns wild grains sea buckthorn ànd all sorts of roots and shrubs fascinating stuff. atb Bill
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I hope this will be a series! You could cook and taste different foods from different countries from ancient times!
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I bet these patties when dried out would make a great soup puck when travelling.
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More of these historical vids Emmy!! You do them so well & they are a lot of fun
