EUROPEANS USED TO EAT THEIR DEAD

A new study, published in the Quaternary Science Review, claims that cannibalism was a routine funerary practice in Europe about 15,000 years ago. They believe people back then ate their dead not out of necessity but rather as part of their culture. Research focused on the Magdalenian period of the late Upper Paleolithic era. The Magdalenians lived some 11,000 to 17,000 years ago. 59 Magdalenian sites, mostly in France, Germany, Spain and Russia, were found to have human remains. Fifteen of them showed evidence of human remains with chewing marks, skull bones with cut marks and bones purposefully broken in a pattern associated with the extraction of bone marrow for nutrients, indicating that cannibalism was practiced.
* Ah – British food finally explained!
* I’m finding this story hard to digest.
* And no, they did not dig up a book called “To Serve Man.”
* Historically, the Magdalenian period predated the Federmesser comma, so first you had “Let’s eat grandma” and then you had “Let’s eat, comma, grandma.”
* Once again, this has been your Media Pre-Halloween Horror Story of the Day.