Neanderthals were certainly smart enough to have more understanding of dietary needs than a vulture does. And "any homo something before or after" includes us today. While it might be reasonable to say there are things we don't fully understand about the way fat affects the body, we do understand the nutritional value of fat.

> Neanderthals were certainly smart enough to have more understanding of dietary needs than a vulture does.

Understanding the nutritional value of a food goes beyond than working to get the food. You need to have a theory of nutrition (true or false), and there is nothing that can suggest this. Saying that they ate fat because fat is good for them is tautologic

> And "any homo something before or after" includes us today.

It is obvious that I include our specy only until the first research and experiments on the topic

What more did they know about dietary fat than that it was edible and it would help them survive, the same as any animal?

This just sounds like romanticizing.

You guys are getting to wrapped up in "They were Food Blogger Influencers".

The key here is the mechanics "systematically stripping fat from the bones of large animals using water and heat"

The ability to organize to use multiple coordinated steps.

My huskies and some of my neighbors have equivalent educations on nutritional science.