What Did a Neanderthal Eat for Breakfast? Reconstructing a Day of Ice Age Meals

I split a marrow bone once with a hammerstone — a real one, at an experimental archaeology session. The crack was louder than I expected. The marrow inside was pale, fatty, and surprisingly abundant. I thought about a Neanderthal waking on a cold morning to the remnants of last night’s fire, picking up a long…