You might picture Neanderthals as cavemen gnawing on bones around a campfire. Which wouldn't be inaccurate. But Neanderthals may have also dined on roasted vegetables and known a bit about medicinal plants too. So says a study in the journal Naturwissenschaften (The Science of Nature ). [Karen Hardy et al, Neanderthal medics? Evidence for food, cooking, and medicinal plants entrapped in dental calculus (link forthcoming)] [More]