Cut-marked bone (ulna) of Rock Dove specimens from Gorham’s Cave Credit: Ruth Blasco et al., Scientific Reports
Posted on 08/18/2014 8:00:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Neanderthals may have caught, butchered and cooked wild pigeons long before modern humans became regular consumers of bird meat, a study revealed on Thursday.
Close examination of 1,724 bones from rock doves, found in a cave in Gibraltar and dated to between 67,000 and 28,000 years ago, revealed cuts, human tooth marks and burns, said a paper in the journal Scientific Reports.
This suggested the doves may have been butchered and then roasted, wrote the researchers—the first evidence of hominids eating birds.
And the evidence suggested Neanderthals ate much like a latter-day Homo sapiens would tuck into a roast chicken, pulling the bones apart to get at the soft flesh.
"They liked what we like and went for the breasts, the drumsticks and the wings," study author Clive Finlayson, director of the Gibraltar Museum, told journalists of the bone analysis...
Yet at Gorham's Cave, "Neanderthals exploited Rock Doves for food for a period of over 40 thousand years, the earliest evidence dating to at least 67 thousand years ago," said the paper.
And these were not sporadic meals, as borne out by "repeated evidence of the practice in different, widely spaced" parts of the cave.
"Our results point to hitherto unappreciated capacities of the Neanderthals to exploit birds as food resources on a regular basis," the team wrote.
"More so, they were practising it long before the arrival of modern humans and had therefore invented it independently."
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
Cut-marked bone (ulna) of Rock Dove specimens from Gorham’s Cave Credit: Ruth Blasco et al., Scientific Reports
The Neandertal Enigma"Frayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]
by James Shreeve
in local libraries
As opposed to all of the other many parts of the birds, which they could have eaten but chosen not to.
They were also the first to exclaim, “tastes like chicken.”
Well, the idiots who are frying birds via solar farms will be happy.
Did Neanderthals have bird-brains?
But who first ate beaver?
Beaver Cleaver.
>>Beaver Cleaver.<<
OK, all together:
“Ward, you were hard on the Beaver last night!”
Obviously. One comes with every rock pigeon :-)
Neanderthals— they must have lived near solar power facilities and just eaten the streamers.....
Rock dove, which can be hard to hit with a shotgun or a rock.
#7 rock-salt shot, a keen eye, steady aim and opposable thumb.
why is this a surprise? ...well?
Rock dove, which can be hard to hit with a shotgun or a rock.
#7 rock-salt shot, a keen eye, steady aim and opposable thumb.
—==00800==—
Bird lime @ the dark of night........
Very refined of those Neanderthals.
Birdlime, or perhaps nets. Also, another erroneous title, others before Neanderthal no doubt ate birds, just no concentration of remains as prooof.
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