There might be couple other possible interpretations for these #CutMarks on 1.5 m y/o hominin bones coming to mind (defleshment of any kind), but to be honest (subsistence) #cannibalism seems an explanation as good (or bad) as any of these...

In Germany we have saying about lazily "lying on a bearskin" 🥱🐻 - and apparently that's been a thing for at least 300,000 years ...

(As #CutMarks on #CaveBear bones discovered at the #Paleolithic site of #Schöningen in Lower Saxony...

Among these traces are e.g. #CutMarks on human bones - whose origin and meaning, admittedly, can have a variety of possible reasons ... of which the removal of flesh *might* be one.

Here's a recent study on skull fragments from #GöbekliTepe for...