Prehistoric Britons ate their dead and carved mysterious markings on their bones
Cheddar 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.
telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/08/09/ancient-britons-ate-dead-carved-mysterious-markings-bones/
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....
bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-40886748
"Scientists have long recognised that cannibals operated at Gough’s Cave in Somerset"
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"but were unsure whether the practice of eating other people had any symbolic significance."
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I like skulls made into cups or bowls bit "possibly to eat or drink from". :-)