Local cuisine was on the menu at Cafe Neanderthal

We’re starting to find features that distinguish one Neanderthal culture from another.

Sixty thousand years ago, two groups of Neanderthals lived just a stone’s throw apart in what’s now northern Israel. But they had very different cultures when it came to food, according to a recent study. Archaeologist Anaëlle Jallon of Hebrew University of Jerusalem and her colleagues examined dozens of animal bones from both sites, looking for clues about Neanderthal meal prep. It turns out that something as mundane as the cut marks left by butchering an animal can reveal differences in ancient people’s way of life.

image of 4 ungulate bones with cut marks These ungulate bones from Amud (left) and Kebara (right) caves show distinctly different patterns of cut marks. Credit: Jallon et al. 2025

What did Neanderthals eat? It depends.

The Neanderthals who lived around the Sea of Galilee between 70,000 and 50,000 years ago had their pick of meat entrees on the hoof. The area was home to several species of deer, from tiny roe deer to larger red deer, along with gazelles, wild goats, boar, and larger game like aurochs and relatives of modern horses. For Neanderthal hunters equipped with wood and stone hunting tools, the place was a veritable buffet. And you might expect that one group of Neanderthals would eat pretty much the same things as any others in the area.

However, what Jallon and her colleagues found in their recent study looks more like the Pleistocene version of New York and Chicago having very different styles of pizza: same ingredients, different ways of using them.

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Trump to sign stablecoin bill that may make it easier to bribe the president

Donald Trump’s first big crypto win “nothing to crow about,” analyst says.

Donald Trump is expected to sign the GENIUS Act into law Friday, securing his first big win as a self-described "pro-crypto president." The act is the first major piece of cryptocurrency legislation passed in the US.

The House of Representatives voted to pass the GENIUS Act on Thursday, approving the same bill that the Senate passed last month. The law provides a federal framework for stablecoins, a form of cryptocurrency that's considered less volatile than other cryptocurrencies, as each token is backed by the US dollar or other supposedly low-risk assets.

The GENIUS Act is expected to spur more widespread adoption of cryptocurrencies, since stablecoins are often used to move funds between different tokens. It could become a gateway for many Americans who are otherwise shy about investing in cryptocurrencies, which is what the industry wants. Ahead of Thursday's vote, critics had warned that Republicans were rushing the pro-industry bill without ensuring adequate consumer protections, though, seemingly setting Americans up to embrace stablecoins as legitimate so-called "cash of the blockchain" without actually insuring their investments.

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Rockchip RK36xx chips have up to 12 ARMv9.3 CPU cores, 2 TFLOPS graphics, 32 TOPS NPU, and LPDDR6 200GB/s memory

Rockchip’s ARM-based RK3588 processors have been popular options for single-board computers, Linux laptops, and other devices since launching a few years ago. Now Rockchip has unveiled next-gen chips that should bring a big boosts in CPU, graphic…

Rockchip’s ARM-based RK3588 processors have been popular options for single-board computers, Linux laptops, and other devices since launching a few years ago. Now Rockchip has unveiled next-gen chips that should bring a big boosts in CPU, graphics, and AI performance among other things. The upcoming Rockchip RK3688 is a new flagship-class processor with 12 CPU cores, […]

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