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On 7/2/25 2:09 PM, Pandora wrote:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adv1257

What, no fish?

Tell me about the containers they boiled this bone marrow
in.

The cite specifically states that they were boiling the
marrow. What were they boiling it in?

Oh:

#1. It's next to a lake.

#2. The claim is that the site is used specifically for rendering
out bone grease.

#3. "Diet" is an assumption. It has a lot of used and was used
extensively in the past, outside of diet.



Your grave error is in confusing "Aquatic Ape" with "Could only
ever eat seafood or they'd explode."
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From Newsgroup: sci.anthropology.paleo

Large-scale processing of within-bone nutrients by Neanderthals, 125,000
years ago

Abstract

Diet played a key role in human evolution, making the study of past diet
and subsistence strategies a crucial research topic within
paleoanthropology. Lipids are a crucial resource for hunter-gatherers, especially for foragers whose diet is based heavily on animal foods.
Recent foragers have expended substantial amounts of energy to obtain
this resource, including time-consuming production of bone grease, a
resource intensification practice thus far only documented for Upper Paleolithic populations. We present archaeological data from the lake landscape of Neumark-Nord (Germany), where Last Interglacial
Neanderthals processed at least 172 large mammals at a waterrCOs edge
site. Their (partial) carcasses were transported to this location for
the extraction of within-bone nutrients, particularly bone grease. This
rCLfat factoryrCY constitutes a well-documented case of grease rendering predating the Upper Paleolithic, with the special task location devoted
to extraction of nutritionally important lipids forming an important
addition to our knowledge of Neanderthal adaptations.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adv1257

What, no fish?
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From Newsgroup: sci.anthropology.paleo

Pandora wrote:

Large-scale processing of within-bone nutrients by Neanderthals, 125,000 years ago

Abstract

Diet played a key role in human evolution, making the study of past diet
and subsistence strategies a crucial research topic within paleoanthropology. Lipids are a crucial resource for hunter-gatherers, especially for foragers whose diet is based heavily on animal foods.
Recent foragers have expended substantial amounts of energy to obtain
this resource, including time-consuming production of bone grease, a resource intensification practice thus far only documented for Upper Paleolithic populations. We present archaeological data from the lake landscape of Neumark-Nord (Germany), where Last Interglacial
Neanderthals processed at least 172 large mammals at a waterrCOs edge
site. Their (partial) carcasses were transported to this location for
the extraction of within-bone nutrients, particularly bone grease. This rCLfat factoryrCY constitutes a well-documented case of grease rendering predating the Upper Paleolithic, with the special task location devoted
to extraction of nutritionally important lipids forming an important addition to our knowledge of Neanderthal adaptations.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adv1257

The paper's public. Nice.

What, no fish?

Appetizers.


Interesting.

"...processed at least 172 large mammals at a waterrCOs
edge site. Their (partial) carcasses were transported
to this location for the extraction ..."

"Alongside evidence for Neanderthal knapping
activities at NN2/2/B, 118,774 heavily fragmented
and cut marked faunal remains were recovered,
representing a minimum number of 172 large mammals,
including horses [minimum number of individuals
(MNI) = 56], bovids (MNI = 45), and cervids
(MNI = 54)."
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