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It's in there.

> At this location, researchers found that Neanderthals not only broke bones to extract marrow but also crushed large mammal bones into tens of thousands of fragments to render calorie-rich bone grease through heating them in water.

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AFAIK Neanderthals didn't have clay pots - how would they hold the water to heat it and put the bone pieces in?

EDIT: I asked claude and it doesn't know for sure but guessed "stone boiling into an organic container — animal stomach, hide, or a bark vessel — remains the most plausible explanation for how they heated the water."

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One point here is that you can boil water over a fire in a flammable container.

Here, this isn't about boiling, but similar: "Because the Neanderthals had no pots, we presume that they soaked their seeds in a fold of an animal skin," says Chris Hunt, a genuine (checks) expert in cultural paleoecology.

https://archaeologymag.com/2022/11/neanderthals-cooked-surpr...

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