About 15,000 years ago in Gough's Cave, near Bristol in the UK, a group of people ate parts of each other.
They de-fleshed and disarticulated the bones, then chewed and crushed them. They may also have cracked the bones to extract the marrow inside.
It was not only adults that showed signs of being eaten. A three-year-old child and two adolescents all had the tell-tale marks of being nibbled on.
Some of their skulls were even modified into ornaments called "skull cups", which may have been used to drink out of.
What was going on in Gough's Cave? Was this an example of human violence between rivals, a strange kind of ritual behaviour, or simply a desperate bid for survival?
Article: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20161011-the-people-who-ate-each-other
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(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday October 17 2016, @04:21PM
This is what we get when we play too many games of Cards Against Humanity. Seriously, "nibbled on" for child cannibalism?
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"