Ella Al-Shamahi

Yeah, but also even the hunter, like, you know, once you...

I don't know that they're necessarily bigger because they might be stockier, but they're so short by comparison.

But what we do think is that they were doing a lot of short range hunting.

So not really projectile weapons.

Projectile weapons are quite an incredible invention.

Oh my God, especially when you get to arrows.

You could suddenly be incredibly deadly.

Obviously, the force, velocity, what have you, speed is increased, but it's less deadly for you on the other side.

Neanderthals have so many injuries.

We think partly because they're doing close range hunting.

Think about the logic.

How interesting is that?

Once you're kind of doing close range hunting, you're risking your life so much more.

So, yeah, we think, you know, very similar hunting to us, though, in terms of the prey that we were eating.

I mean, every so often you get a headline that's really interesting.

Like some archaeologists years ago now started looking at different assemblages, like different within the archaeological record, the animals that were being...

consumed by us versus the Neanderthals.

And they were of the opinion that the Neanderthals were hunting less small animals like rabbits.

And so they came to this conclusion that we survived because of small animals.

And the logic of that was that we had smaller furs that we could kind of cover ourselves better with.