Recently, the Discovery Channel reported that scientists discovered evidence of Neanderthals making jerky from Mammoth meat…

Animal bones and stone tools indicate Neanderthals hunted away from home. In order to transport meat, Sorensen thinks they must have dried it. “I do not know of any evidence for [them] using salt,” he explains.

“Carrying dried meat from a mammoth home could now be done by seven to eight round trips [over] 14 to 16 days,” he added.

Neanderthals appeared on the planet as early as 600,000 years ago, and died out about 50,000 years ago. So, jerky is perhaps the world’s oldest snack food.

But you gotta figure with an animal as big as a mammoth, you’re bound to have left overs. You gotta do something with all that meat.