Cave
finds revive Neandertal cannibalism
The butchered
skeletal remains of six individuals offer compelling evidence of
Neandertal cannibalism around 100,000 years ago.
References:
Defleur, A., T.
White, et al. 1999. Neanderthal cannibalism at Moula-Guercy,
Ardèche, France. Science 286(Oct. 1):128.
Further Readings:
Bower, B. 1993.
The cannibal’s signature. Science News 143(Jan. 2):12.
Sources:
Alban Defleur
Laboratoire d’Anthropologie
UMR 6569 du CNRS
Faculté de Médecine
Secteur Nord
Boulevard Pierre Dramart
13916 Marseille Cedex 20
France
Tim White
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Integrative Biology
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Laboratory for Human Evolutionary Studies
Berkeley, CA 94720
From Science
News, Vol. 156, No. 14, October 2, 1999, p. 213. Copyright © 1999,
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