What did neanderthal's diet consist of?

Question

Im doing a project on them and all i have found is they eat mammoth and sometimes resorted to cannibalism, do u know of anything else?

any info or links will help Tkz

Answer 1

the simple answer is ;

whatever didn't kill them that they could kill.

It was pretty much eat,or be eaten

Answer 2

Analysis of Neanderthal f***s indicate their diet was 80-90% meat.  This probably led to their extinction because when game was scarce, they were likely to starve.  Homo sapiens of the same period had a diet of 20-30% meat, the balance being vegetabe matter.  Some scraped bones, perhaps indicative of cannibalism, have been found near caves previously occupied by neandertal.  However this could be the results of ritual burrial too (some sapien populations de-fleshed corpses before burrial.)

Neandertal women also "appear" to have participated in the hunt, as they also had  frequently broken bones seen on most neandertal men.  Sapien men "appear" to have done most of the hunting, while women gathered fruits & vegetable matter for the tribe.  Researchers have often compared the bones of neandertal to those of a rodeo rider.  They obviously killed their prey from close quarters by ambush... making hunting of large prey very hazardous.

I suspect, as do many others, the neandertal's dependency upon meat led to their demise. Sapien could survive for long periods on either meat or vegetable matter.