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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Friends - The Police (Heinlein reference)
Funerary or Culinary?
Have you tried Uncle Moishe? He’s to die for!
So, they were the first liberal “democrats”?
Waste not, want not.
“these early humans had chew marks on their dead’s bones”
How did they differentiate human chew marks from animal chew marks?
That’s probably why they always carried around a bottle of hot sauce in their bags.
The spirits of the dead, known as "the old ones," ruled Martian society.
Ah, Business Inside Her strikes again.
The animals didn’t grind pepper onto their human?
(Have you tried Uncle Moishe? He’s to die for!)
Is he Kosher?
Look out! Charlton Heston!!
The New Green tastes like chicken 🐔🍗
Okay, I guess what’s widely reported isn’t true.
Makes one hungry, no?
Read the book. It’s still one of the greatest sci-fi books ever written.
Type that into an internet search and tada! Answers.
Huge Heinlein fan. His books turned me into a teenage conservative.
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“White folks was in the caves while we was building empires... We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.”
― Al Sharpton
“How did they differentiate human chew marks from animal chew marks?”
Ever look close at your front teeth in a mirror? Very distinct “ridges”, bite pattern, and size that cannot be mistaken for any other species.
But there were also later periods where distinct human made stone tool “butchering” marks where found on human bones. In a dire survival situation protein is protein.
If the WEF doesn’t support this now, they soon will.
So we made our own! (circle)
(easy one)
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