Mar 8 2017, 2:19 pm ET
Neanderthal Used Early Version of Penicillin and Aspirin
by The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Eating like a caveman meant chowing down on woolly rhinos and sheep in Belgium, but munching on mushrooms, pine nuts and moss in Spain. It all depended on where they lived, new research shows.
Scientists got a sneak peek into the kitchen of three Neanderthals by scraping off the plaque stuck on their teeth and examining the DNA. What they found smashes a common public misconception that the caveman diet was mostly meat. They also found hints that one sickly teen used primitive versions of penicillin and aspirin to help ease his pain.
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/neanderthal-used-early-version-penicillin-aspirin-n730746?cid=public-rss_20170308
