Settlement Site Hints at Mass Cannibalism [Germany 7,000 years ago]

Discovery News ^ | Friday, December 4, 2009 | Bruce Bower, Science News

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At a settlement in what is now southern Germany, the menu turned gruesome 7,000 years ago. Over a period of perhaps a few decades, hundreds of people were butchered and eaten before parts of their bodies were thrown into oval pits, a new study suggests. Cannibalism at the village, now called Herxheim, may have occurred during ceremonies in which people from near and far brought slaves, war prisoners or other dependents for ritual sacrifice, propose anthropologist Bruno Boulestin of the University of Bordeaux... A social and political crisis in central Europe at that time triggered various forms of violence, the researchers suspect... during Europe's early Neolithic period, when farming first spread... facial bones were smashed beyond recognition

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F. Haak, GDKE Rheinland-Pfalz, Direktion Archaologie, Speyer

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[KingLudd]

Two cannibals are eating a clown. One says, “does this taste funny to you?”

[SunkenCiv]

“But momma, I don’t like baby sister.”

“Shut up and eat what’s put before you.”

[BobL]

Are you sure that it wasn’t just early evidence of the Republican Party?

[xcamel]

Naaah... they got ran down by a T-Rex trying to make it to the Ark..

[Farmer Dean]

“I don’t like your neighbors.”
“Well,push them to the side of your plate and eat your veggies then.”

[TheOldLady]

“I hate the neighbor’s kids.”

“Children in China are starving.”

[TheOldLady]

“What’s for dinner?”

“Leftovers.”

“We always have leftovers. What were they before they were leftovers?”

“Leftovers to be!”

[SunkenCiv]

What if they came from the right side?...

[SunkenCiv]

That explains the paper plates.

[SunkenCiv]

What if the neighbors were vegetables?...

[SunkenCiv]

I like you. :’)

[SunkenCiv]

Or FR maybe...

[Hoosier-Daddy]

This would explain ‘brat’ wurst

[Arthur McGowan]

And then came Christian missionaries to trample on these beautiful indigenous spiritualities.

[colorado tanker]

Did you hear about the cannibal who passed his uncle in the woods?

[Doomonyou]

Zombie outbreak.

It happens.

[norraad]

Why won't cannibals eat divorced women?

They're very bitter.