[SunkenCiv]

Cut-marked bone (ulna) of Rock Dove specimens from Gorham’s Cave Credit: Ruth Blasco et al., Scientific Reports

[ClearCase_guy]

"They liked what we like and went for the breasts, the drumsticks and the wings,"

As opposed to all of the other many parts of the birds, which they could have eaten but chosen not to.

[Sgt_Schultze]

They were also the first to exclaim, “tastes like chicken.”

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Well, the idiots who are frying birds via solar farms will be happy.

[bunkerhill7]

Did Neanderthals have bird-brains?

[freedumb2003]

But who first ate beaver?

[freebilly]

Neanderthals— they must have lived near solar power facilities and just eaten the streamers.....

[skinkinthegrass]

why is this a surprise? ...well?

[clearcarbon]

"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."

Did they find broken wish bones?

[colorado tanker]

Ahem, when we eat them we call the dish squab.

Very refined of those Neanderthals.