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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You have better evidence? Those people were probably indigenous Europeans who were over-taken later by the nomadic Aryans from southern Russia.
You are perhaps thinking of Farnham’s Freehold.
Hugh Farnham is a practical, self-made man, and when he sees the clouds of nuclear war gathering, he builds a bomb shelter under his house, hoping for peace and preparing for war. But when the apocalypse comes, something happens that he did not expect. A thermonuclear blast tears apart the fabric of time and hurls his shelter into a world with no sign of other human beings.
Farnham and his family have barely settled down to the backbreaking business of low-tech survival when they find that they are not alone after all. The same nuclear war that catapulted Farnham 2,000 years into the future has destroyed all civilization in the northern hemisphere, leaving Africans as the dominant surviving people.
In the new world order, Farnham and his family, being members of the race that nearly destroyed the world, are fit only to be slaves (or dinner). After surviving a nuclear war, Farnham has no intention of being anyone’s slave, but the tyrannical power of the Chosen race reaches throughout the world. Even if he manages to escape, where can he run to?
https://www.amazon.com/Farnhams-Freehold-audiobook/dp/B0056A41SG/ref=sr_1_1
It worked!
This was before our ancestors arrived from the Pontic Steppe and wiped out all those savages or sent them back to Africa.
Here you go:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NQDGZVIgR6E
Sounds practical
1. No funeral or burial expenses
2. Just say grace without having to suffer through a long eulogy describing some idealized person with almost no similarity to the departed
3. No wasted average for cemeteries
4. A source of protein that can’t eat you first or bite back
5. I wouldn’t know but it has to be a lot better than McD’s
6. Can’t afford McD’s anymore anyway
7. When is supper served?
On the other hand, Jesus came here to do a lot of business, not just our Redemption, but also to bind up our past sins (like cannibalism), cast them out, and forbid such atrocities forever.
And frankly, instruct us to eliminate any group that did not see the Light.
When I read the headline first thing I thought of was this book I read fifty years ago. Stranger in a Strange Land. Didn’t care for it.
a bottle of A1 sauce found at the burial site
raised suspicions
“Progressives taste like chicken.”
I thought it was pork as in “Long pork”.
Utterly undocumented B.S.
Quit posting this tripe.
Very eco friendly!
Or the lifeboat sketch.
You were there 15,000 years ago? Did you take any video?
Just building the garden.
As Uncle George would say “Yum Yum eat ‘em up”
suppose this is the same for big foots?
I’m not even going to answer that silliness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hunter-Gatherer
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