Archaeologists Baffled By A 2,000-Year-Old Skeleton Found In Scotland With Its Brain Scooped Out And Its Bones Turned Into Tools
This is not knowledge that anyone simply has; it is knowledge that is acquired through practice and possibly through transmission from more experienced practitioners.
The precision of the modifications documented at Loch Borralie — the specific forms produced, the consistent approach to multiple bones — suggests someone with established knowledge of how to work bone.
The skull work is similarly specialized.
Knowing how to fracture the cranial base in a way that opens access to the skull interior without destroying the skull as a coherent object — and then knowing how to use a tool inside that confined space to clear soft tissue — is not something that would be done correctly on a first attempt.
It requires either practical experience or access to transmitted knowledge about the correct technique.