“It is not necessary to cut and peel flesh from bones to remove feathers”
I was wondering as well why peeling ans scraping of bone would indicate removal of feathers. That type of finding would seem to show that flesh was cut apart. Maybe the Neanderthal took the feathers to wear, but I would like to know why this discovery automatically led scientist types to think that a prehistoric person chopped up an animal just to pluck a feather.
It would be my assumption that the ate everything that did not eat them first. including some things that the researchers consider yucky by our standards.
My dogs standards of food compared to my standards of food probably vary to the same degree as Neanderthals and modern researchers.
This is not to say they did not express art, but a pile of bird bones does not indicate in any way what happened to the feathers... Or will we start finding other neanderthal feather outlets..?
I would have concluded a group found a location where it was possible to obtain easy food, raptors, and simply exploited the location over time.
What they did with the feather's is anyones guess... Which is what their findings are, a guess.
““It is not necessary to cut and peel flesh from bones to remove feathers”
I was wondering as well why peeling ans scraping of bone would indicate removal of feathers. That type of finding would seem to show that flesh was cut apart. Maybe the Neanderthal took the feathers to wear, but I would like to know why this discovery automatically led scientist types to think that a prehistoric person chopped up an animal just to pluck a feather.”
Artistic license. Seems to me, far too many in this particular field behave as if they’re authors of fantasy novels.