"There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!" [Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol]
Thanks nickcarraway.
Posted on 10/06/2023 3:53:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
-Europeans probably ate their dead loved ones instead of burying them 15,000 years ago.
-According to a new study, the consumption of dead people was not essential, but a ritual.
-Researchers also said people used the remaining bones as cups and chewed on them.
Cannibalistic Europeans likely feasted on their deceased loved ones at funerals instead of burying them, according to a new study.
Scientists now believe that cannibalism was widespread among Magdalenian Upper Palaeolithic people, who lived across Europe between 11,000 and 17,000 years ago, according to the study published in Quaternary Science Reviews.
The study's researchers analyzed funerary practices at 25 Magdalenians burial sites across France, Germany, Spain, Russia, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Portugal. The study found evidence that these early humans had chew marks on their dead's bones, used their skulls as cups, and extracted bone marrow from the bodies for nutrients.
In some cases, the ancient humans appeared to have combined the human remains with animal remains, per the study.
Scientists had previously known of a few instances of cannibalism among this group, like those at Gough's Cave, where skull cups and other human bones were found, but had not known until now just how commonplace the practice was.
The researchers wrote that it is "undeniable that the frequency of cannibalistic cases among Magdalenian sites exceeds any incidence of this behaviour among earlier or later hominin groups, and suggests that mortuary cannibalism was a method Magdalenian people used to dispose of their deceased."
Dr. Silvia Bello, a paleoanthropologist and co-author of the study, said in a press release that the cannibalistic behavior was "not simply practiced out of necessity," but rather as a "funerary practice."
Study co-author Dr. William Marsh added that their findings offered a contextualization of Gough's Cave.
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"There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!" [Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol]
Thanks nickcarraway.
You are what you eat!
“In a dire survival situation protein is protein.”
Just ask the Donner party or the 16 survivors of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crash in 1972.
Garbage Marxist propaganda designed to make white people look bad.
Yep.
“Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crash in 1972.”
That was one of the more recent incidents I was trying to remember yesterday. Thank you.
I remember reading that book as a kid.
“I remember reading that book as a kid.”
I think there were a couple movies about it also.
Although he was first in the “flight of the pheonix” earlier, I think Earnest Borgnine was in one about this crash also.
The movie was good, one of the most intense plane crash scenes you’ll ever see.
You’re welcome.
That is the latest is the last one I can remember. I had to look up the details but I remembered it because it was all over the news when the plane disappeared and when the two guys walked over the Andes for help. You know they had to carry something to nibble on the trek out.
“We are dead men walking, but we are walking.”
So that’s where ketchup came from.
Thanks for posting the GIF. It’s hilarious!
Whodathunk? Neolithic people behaving neolithicly!
Ay, por favor-esta mierda otra vez...
A couple of FReepers already smacked down that race assumption with factual info-those folks were not “white” as it applies to race-It was 15,000 years ago-do y’all really think there were defined races then-maybe an ancient affirmative action program? Hiring quotas for the hunt? Section 8 cave space-WTF?
The interesting thing about the article is that all the humans were cannibals sometimes-that means everybody-please take off the racial view glasses...
Excuse my rant-but I get tired of seeing folks come to your articles posted/pinged and go apes*** on race, savages, etc instead of reading them with the interest they were intended to generate about humans in general. I enjoyed the article, and the Heinlein references-Farnham’s Freehold” is one of my fav scifi novels-I own it and have read it many times-thank you...
Do you know that a cannible will NOT eat a clown?
20 And the remainder of those dissenters, rather than be smitten down to the earth by the sword, yielded to the standard of liberty, and were compelled to hoist the atitle of liberty upon their towers, and in their cities, and to take up arms in defence of their country.
Alma 50:4
4 And he caused towers to be erected that overlooked those works of pickets, and he caused places of security to be built upon those atowers, that the stones and the arrows of the Lamanites could not hurt them.
Mormon 4:14
14 And they did also march forward against the city Teancum, and did drive the inhabitants forth out of her, and did take many prisoners both women and children, and did offer them up as asacrifices unto their idol gods.
Moroni 9:7-10
7 And now I write somewhat concerning the sufferings of this people. For according to the knowledge which I have received from Amoron, behold, the Lamanites have many prisoners, which they took from the tower of Sherrizah; and there were men, women, and children.
8 And the husbands and fathers of those women and children they have slain; and they feed the women upon the aflesh of their husbands, and the children upon the flesh of their fathers; and no water, save a little, do they give unto them.
9 And notwithstanding this great aabomination of the Lamanites, it doth not exceed that of our people in Moriantum. For behold, many of the daughters of the Lamanites have they taken prisoners; and after bdepriving them of that which was most dear and precious above all things, which is cchastity and dvirtue—
10 And after they had done this thing, they did murder them in a most acruel manner, torturing their bodies even unto death; and after they have done this, they devour their flesh like unto wild beasts, because of the hardness of their hearts; and they do it for a token of bravery.
But what about Mikey?
He’ll eat ANYTHING!
New Stoney?
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