The fat factory suggests Neanderthals’ grasp of their survivalist diets, and that they were able to understand their environment and plan ahead for hunting and resource-gathering. Though the assembly line is largely credited to Henry Ford in 1913, humans understood the mass production practice long beforehand. The recent research from Leiden University adds to decades of previous research at the Neumark-Nord archaeological site near Leipzig, Germany. Previous research at Neumark-Nord showed that Neanderthals hunted and butchered straight-tusked elephants in the region. Needless to say, Neanderthals have long been underestimated, and the new study does nothing to dissuade that notion.