Engraved Bones Reveal Cannibal Rituals 15,000 Years Ago
Arm bone at cave site had been carved with a zigzag pattern before being broken open to get at the marrow.
by Hannah Osborne
Sep 29, 2017
3 minutes
Archaeologists have long known about our cannibalistic past, but why humans who lived thousands of years ago ate each other has been unclear. Now, a human bone engraved 15,000 years ago has fleshed out a long-incomplete picture about this ancient practice. providing clear evidence that some Paleolithic humans engaged in cannibalism for ritual purposes.
After filleting and consuming dead bodies, these groups stopped to inscribe a design on the bones before sucking out the marrow, and then using the skulls as cups. In
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