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Prehistoric Britons ate their dead and carved mysterious markings on their bonesCheddar Gorge in Somerset’s Mendip Hills is one of Britain’s most beautiful natural wonders, with its sweeping limestone cliffs, and striking natural rock chambers. But new evidence suggests the picturesque site had a deeply sinister past. Paleontologists have discovered that around 15,000 years ago, British cave dwellers filleted and ate their dead relatives before inscribing markings on their bones in grisly prehistoric rituals. It is the first time that such practices have been found in the Paleolithic, or Old Stone Age - which dates from 2.6 million years ago to around 12,000BC - anywhere in the world. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/08/09/ancient-britons-ate-dead-carved-mysterious-markings-bones/ |
Posted by moss14th August 2017ce |
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There is plenty of news on this, the 'zig-zag' markings echoed elsewhere. But a sharp dagger of homesickness for this beautiful part of Somerset made me choose The Telegraph.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-40886748 |
Posted by moss 14th August 2017ce |
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"Scientists have long recognised that cannibals operated at Gough’s Cave in Somerset" lol "but were unsure whether the practice of eating other people had any symbolic significance." lol |
Posted by Evergreen Dazed14th August 2017ce |
| I like skulls made into cups or bowls bit "possibly to eat or drink from". :-) |
Posted by drewbhoy14th August 2017ce |
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