There's ample evidence of Neanderthals with various severe, yet healed, injuries, including severed limbs. Suggesting they at least had enough medical knowledge to mend wounds/severed limbs and possibly even amputate.
It's not a large leap to think they would have had enough intuition to use a knife to cut out a baby if a mother died in child birth.
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There's ample evidence of Neanderthals with various severe, yet healed, injuries, including severed limbs. Suggesting they at least had enough medical knowledge to mend wounds/severed limbs and possibly even amputate.
It's not a large leap to think they would have had enough intuition to use a knife to cut out a baby if a mother died in child birth.