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Evidence of Neolithic Cannibalism Found in Spanish Cave - Archaeology Magazine
Child femur found in Spain's El Mirador Cave, with impacts to extract bone marrow SIERRA DE ATAPUERCA, SPAIN—Hundreds of human bone fragments found at El Mirador Cave in Sierra de Atapuerca are evidence of a gruesome event that occurred during the late Neolithic period, according to a Popular Science report. The remains of 11 individuals, including children, adolescents, and adults, displayed signs of butchery, defleshing, cooking, and even mark…
Cannibals ‘cooked & ate’ humans 6,000-years-ago as bite-riddled bones found
A HUGE family was slaughtered, skinned, cooked and eaten in a cave nearly 6,000 years ago, a new study reveals. Neolithic cannibals feasted on at least 11 people – including kids – in what’s now northern Spain, the victims’ remains show. IPHES-CERCAThe cannibalised human remains of at least 11 people[/caption] GettyThe remains were found in El Mirador cave in northern Spain[/caption] IPHES-CERCAThe cave is believed to have been the site of a vio…
Eleven individuals were systematically cut up, cooked and then eaten • It was not a famine, but wartime cannibalism to humiliate the enemy • Bone analysis confirmed that all the victims came from a nearby region
The cave of El Mirador, in the mountain range of Atapuerca (Burgos), has again shaken the scientific world. An international team of archaeologists has dug up the remains of eleven individuals, including children and adolescents, with unequivocal signs of having been skinned, skinned, dismembered and devoured.The bones show cut marks made with silica tools, fractures caused to extract bone marrow and even traces of human teeth.Some of the fragme…
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