Neanderthals Were Master Butchers

Homo neanderthalensis

A physically impressive species

Long ago, ancient ones were all foes

Struggle to survive

Systematic cannibalism

Pushed to Extinction

Anatomical beauties / monsters

A flattened cranium with a heavy brow ridge above large eye sockets

Higher muscle mass, wars among the proto-humans will last

Evolution's created perfect butchers

It's the lawless extremity of nature

Butchering -- the half-dead wallowing in their guts

Cutting the carcass in half starting at the pelvis

Cutting haunch from loin, rump from haunch

Separating the shoulder from the shank as close to the joint as possible

Sawed-off limbs quivering on the ground

Shank for chop meat

Utilizing neck meat

Cutting through nerves, arteries split in two

The sound of slicing fills the air all around

Immersed in butchering, precise disemboweling

Ribs away from spine, separating chuck from the loin.

The pre-human butcher is obsessed with the bedimmed procedure

The epic ambition of this work is to separate flesh from the soul

Thick fat away from chops

No signs of charring, the flesh was eaten raw

Skinning their own kind, cannibalism within the ancient tribes

The skin will come loose from around the meat

The skinned carcass was stripped of meat and marrow

Dead trees seeing all the killing and skinning and cleaning and gutting that hath

Been done

This is the dark side of the pre-human coin

Never it's mysteries are exposed

To the human eye so unclosed