Hey, wee-man! It was me!
Posted on 02/28/2008 6:52:33 PM PST by blam
The last two ate each other (by mutual consent, of course).
Hey, wee-man! It was me!
Ick.
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I know, I know.
Stop dissing my ancestors! :)
Wow!!
Pretty big conclusions (Kuru, Cannibalism) from a few bones in a single cave, and a tribe in New Guinea.
It is possible that, like the Donners, the Neanderthals were driven to Cannibalism due to food shortages brought on by severe weather, volcanic activity, aliens from Uranus, etc....
I would like to know if Neanderthal bones from other areas of Europe show the same butchering marks before I buy into this.
Cannibalism is the exception, and not the rule in nature. Very few higher species practice it. Social cultures that are based on it usually don’t survive for long periods. Certainly not as long as the Neanderthals did.
Nope. I don’t like it.
Ask the Chichimecas. They cooked their friends and ate their enemies raw.
It was in the late 60s and early 70s. Frank Perdue was referring to packages of chicken parts.
Two cannibals are eating a clown they killed and cooked up.
First one turns to the second one and asks “Does this taste funny to you?”
I'm not going to dispute that, because that is what I was always taught. I read a study (on the Kuru) that suggests that certain tribal populations certainly practiced it either ritualistically or when faced with starvation. This leads some to conclude that while cannibalism is universally prohibited now, it was not always thus. IOW's the religious prohibitions grew out of an earlier period where the practice was more common.
Long pork and human beans. It’s what’s for dinner.
LOL: I can only imagine the cartoon that went along with poem.
I disagree. I don't think that religion has anything to do with it. I think it goes against nature. Even the Incas, Aztecs, Mayans, etc were brutal (decapitations and ripping hearts out of thousands every year), there is almost no evidence of cannibalism.
Only on certain Polynesian and Pacific islands was it practiced for any great length of time, and that (it is believed) is because of isolation. On the continents, there is very little evidence of cannibalism.
One professor had the theory that it caused family units to draw closer, only eating outsiders. This let to in-breeding, which will destroy a civilization pretty quickly.
It almost never happens in the natural world, at least with mammals.
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