“…In recent years, detailed taphonomic studies have clarified the potential role played by humans in the accumulation of bird remains in Middle Paleolithic sites (e.g., Rufà et al, 2016aRufà et al, , 2016bRufà et al, , 2018Romero et al, 2017;Lloveras et al, 2018). In Southern France and Iberia, archeozoological analyses of Mousterian collections have shown that Neandertals regularly obtained large mammals and, to a lesser extent, small fast game such as rabbits (e.g., Cochard et al, 2012;Blasco et al, 2013;Morin et al, 2019) and birds.…”