Neanderthals ate sharks and dolphins

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52054653

I really, really want to know how they were catching some of the stuff mentioned. Nets? Boats? Hooks and line?

Not a surprise. They were the first to make art in cave walls, were cognitively complex and capable. H erectus looks like it had to have had a form of raft at least to traverse some of the bodies of water they crossed, so nothing would surprise me about Neanderthals. Other than computers and rocket ships.

Okay, that's pretty cool.

My guess would be stuff washed up on the beach

>4 setnahkt:

The article seemed to imply that cosumption was rather more regular than you'd expect from that. And some of the smaller stuff, like the black bream mentioned, you'd expect the gulls and other scavengers to get first. Personally, while I've seen dead porpoises and seals fairly often, I have very little memory of seeing smaller fish washed up (or any sized fish, for that matter).

Since bears manage to catch fish, it seems unsurprising that Neanderthals did so.

But also, we are talking about a time when there were a lot more fish around than now.