Scientific Methods

Sunday, March 12, 2006

NEANDERTHALS WERE CANNIBALS

"Gory evidence uncovered in France reveals that the early humans in the
region ate one another. Cheek muscles from children were filleted out,
tendons were sliced and skulls were cracked to remove brains."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/462048.stm

"When you see some Neanderthals practising intentional burial and
others practising cannibalism, that is a clear indication of behaviour
that is multidimensional - a pattern that mirrors the behaviour of more
modern people" Professor Tim White, University of California Berkeley

Dr Richard Knight
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posted by Rich Knight at 3/12/2006 09:30:00 PM

6 Comments:

  • Booked

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Tuesday, March 14, 2006 9:39:00 AM  

  • If cannabilsm were part of the diet plan of Neanderthals then yhis is interesting, becuase the human mind then has some sort of the same interest?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Tuesday, March 14, 2006 9:42:00 AM  

  • Booked

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Tuesday, March 14, 2006 9:43:00 AM  

  • I like your comment lethabo. A very important question that you've raised but what about their struggle for existence (survival, could've been a factor why they have practise cannabilsm?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Friday, March 17, 2006 11:39:00 AM  

  • Recent scientific evidence suggest that we are all cannibalist until fairly recently.

    "Researchers from University College London, having identified gene-based resistance to diseases of the mad-cow type among the Fore of Papua New Guinea - who only recently gave up eating their dead - went on to identify it in all the rest of us as well. John Collinge of UCL sees the pattern of chromosomal modification as due to the evolutionary "selection pressure" of past cannibalism-related diseases."

    "There is now an overwhelming case that cannibalism is a worldwide phenomenon, stretching back to our evolutionary origins: wild chimpanzees and 70 other mammal species have been observed killing and eating each other, while the two-million-year-old Homo habilis cranium known as Stw 53 is covered with deliberate cut marks."






    http://www.arts.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2003/10/15/ecfcann14.xml&sSheet=/connected/2003/10/22/ixconn.html

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Saturday, March 18, 2006 8:04:00 PM  

  • By taking a look at the physical appearence of Neaderthels, one can believe that, they are canibals.

    By Blogger linette, at Wednesday, May 31, 2006 3:57:00 PM  

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