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Neanderthals

The Ancients

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The type of prey that these groups would have gone after depended on the local habitat. In colder environments it makes sense to go after big animals, or animals you can easily target em in herds and things like this. But yet in warmer contexts, then they might be going more for medium gong because that's what's around. I think the impression over all is that neandertols were quite well able to assess what made most sense to target,. So if they lived near the coast, sometimes that involved using those resources as well.

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