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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Cue up Monty Python’s Undertaker Sketch.
L
(That’s probably why they always carried around a bottle of hot sauce in their bags)
You got to Frank it up!
(literally)
😆
Thanks, Hillary.
LOL!
(How did they differentiate human chew marks from animal chew marks?)
There were traces of Heinz -15,057
Wait....
Heinz -14,943
B.S.
This is just more anti-white propaganda.
“Experts say.....”
Progressives taste like chicken.
Hillary likes her Seth Rich To Go
Permanently
Ask the Europeans what happened to the Neanderthals.
No... it is Fact.
You serious?
Whites hadn’t made it to Europe at the time. They came from around southern Russia, Georgia and Armenia. I think they left something like 7-8 thousand years ago.
most likely republicans. Because republicans like to eat their own. Democrats are always united and inclusive. There are no purity tests among democrats. From AOC to blue dogs are all welcome in democrat party.
(I think they left something like 7-8 thousand years ago)
Traffic.....
Humans and dogs teamed up to defeat them.
I always admired the idea of the Witness.
As in what’s the color of that house? Answer: this side is painted blue. IOW, not making assumptions outside the facts.
Another one of my favorites. Still one of the greatest sci-fi books ever written.
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