[jmcenanly]

This is about as cold as a cold case can get, all the way back to the Ice age.

[DogBarkTree]

France eh? I wonder what they ate first?

[freedumb2003]

YECers quoting World Weekly News creationist sites in 3...2...1... (getting my popcorn)

[TexasTransplant]

mmmmmmmm Neanderthal! (In my best Homer Simpson voice)

[CharlesWayneCT]

The evidence, which includes teeth and a carefully butchered jawbone from a site called Les Rois in southwestern France, could represent the world's first known biological proof for direct contact between the two human groups.

I'm confused. I thought the one group evolved from the other group, which would be "proof" that they had direct contact, as the mutated versions of the 2nd group would have coexisted for years within the 1st group while they continued mutating in the new human group.

[dblshot]

Yeah, well eat me!

[fortunate sun]

It certainly speaks to the state of mind of the modern humans. Recognized the Neanderthals as a separate species so available for the menu.

[Winstons Julia]

tastes like chicken

[swarthyguy]

>>a Neanderthal child

Bratwurst.

[CaptRon]

suggests Europe's first humans had a violent relationship with their muscular, big-headed hominid ancestors

I guess that's pretty violent.

[bamahead]

Tonight...we dine on neanderthal ping!

[NoPrisoners]

The other, other, other white meat! I knew we were just a bunch of cannibals.

[DannyTN]

1) A cut jawbone and a necklace of teeth is not strong evidence that the Neanderthal was eaten.
2) Early French Dahlmer, one cannibal does not indict all early French as canibals.

[Bon mots]

The French will eat anything if you put enough garlic on it.

[Costumed Vigilante]

[Costumed Vigilante]

Morlock and Eloi timeline and role reversal ping!

[Bon mots]

Headline is BS.

They found a jawbone that someone carved... humans would often carve things out of artifacts they found...

As a kid I took home a bone I found in the woods. I didn’t eat whatever it came from. My mother threw it out. Had she not done that, and I were so inclined, I could have carved something cool out of it.

The Human could have found the bone somewhere and not even realized what it was from, then subsequently made a decoration out of it.

My childhood friend’s father had a skull that someone made into a jewelry box in his cellar gun collection. They did not eat the person it came from. Their grandfather bought it at a gun show in the 1920’s. (I always thought it was a very strange thing to have in the cellar, but it looked to be hundreds of years old.)

[john in springfield]

Dusseldorp indicated that, per Rozzi's study, it's possible modern humans butchered Neanderthals. But he believes Neanderthal reliance on large prey, such as rhinos, brown bear, bison bulls and horses, may have played a bigger factor in the Neanderthal's demise, since large animal shortages could have left them hungry.

Modern humans, in contrast, are thought to have fished and hunted smaller, yet more plentiful, prey, like rabbits and birds.

"After environmental crises, modern humans may then have recovered more quickly than Neanderthals, and may have started usurping territories that before the environmental crisis were occupied by Neanderthals," Dusseldorp said.

Basically, don't bring a rhino to a rabbit fight.

[darth]

Not shocking. Cannibalism is still practiced in parts of Africa. Many primitive societies ate their enemies. Hell, Jeremiah “Liver Eater” Johnson, the famed mountain man, ate the livers of Indians that he killed!

[dfwgator]

"Stop it, stop it. Stop this cannibalism. Let's have a thread about clean, decent human beings."

[reagan_fanatic]

Barney Fwank would have felt right at home there.