these reports are always BS.
So, then, how did the Neanderthal manage to bring down a raptor then?
With a club?
Seems he would have HAD to have had arrows!
Probably in a way similar to that used by farmer's kids in Illinois to catch crows to use as pets.
Take a pole and put a hole in it, insert a stick to act as a "perch" and rig it with a looped line. Set it upright in the open. When a bird comes to alight on the "perch" its weight makes the perch slip out of the shallow hole and fall away, but the bird is snared by the loop. Crows and birds of prey are fond of tall dead snags with a clear view so this sort of thing works well with them.
Another method is to trap a rabbit or duck and use it as bait on the ground to draw down a hawk to netting range or trapping range.