US EditionNeanderthals Cannibalized 'Outsider' Women and Children 45,000 Years Ago at Cave in Belgium
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Butchered Neanderthal Remains from Belgium Analyzed - Archaeology Magazine
PARIS, FRANCE—According to a statement released by the French National Center for Scientific Research, an international team of scientists led by Quentin Cosnefroy and Isabelle Crevecoeur of the University of Bordeaux examined a collection of Neanderthal bones recovered from Belgium’s Goyet Cave. The results of the testing, which included radiocarbon dating and DNA, isotopic, and morphological analysis, suggest that the group was made up of Nean…
The Neanderthals who ate their neighbors
Neanderthals have received a necessary historical revision over the last few decades. Although many previous depictions presented our long-lost relative as a dimwitted evolutionary misfire, paleoarchaeological evidence now shows they were creative, artistic, and technologically proficient hominins. However, this more accurate picture isn’t entirely pretty. Judging from ancient evidence recovered from a cave in Belgium, at least some Neanderthal …
It was selective cannibalism. The victims were chosen with all intent. Adult women and small Neanderthal children. And it had nothing to do with any ritual or offering. It was a macabre feast in which members of a rival tribe were consumed between 41,000 and 45,000 years ago in the Troisième cavern of Goyet (Belgium).
Expensive analyses of the bones from the caves of Goyet solve the mystery of who was eaten for what reasons a little more than 40,000 years ago
In the depths of the caves of Goyet, Belgium, lies an icy testimony of what our evolutionary cousins were capable of. Six skeletons of forty-five thousand years old tell a story of calculated violence and strategic cannibalism. A story where the victims were not chosen at random. A macabre feast in the caves [...]
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