Thu, Oct-11-12, 07:46
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Originally Posted by sexym2
THose people did not do it for protien though.
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I'm not sure why you say that. Humans have feasted on their enemies, and their own dead, throughout the ages. We know that because we find their remains with the marks of implements used to butcher and dig out marrow.
Jared Diamond writes about how cannibalism has been practiced as civilizations collapse and there isn't enough food/protein to go around, especially on islands where the population might explode and there simply isn't enough food.
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Some anthropologists, such as Tim White, suggest that cannibalism was common in human societies prior to the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic period. This theory is based on the large amount of "butchered human" bones found in Neanderthal and other Lower/Middle Paleolithic sites.[45] Cannibalism in the Lower and Middle Paleolithic may have occurred because of food shortages.[46]
In Gough's Cave, England, remains of human bones and skulls, around 15,000 years old, suggest that cannibalism took place amongst the people living in or visiting the cave,[47] and that they may have used human skulls as drinking vessels.[48][49]
According to one historical account, aboriginal tribes of Australia were "most certainly cannibals", and would willingly eat anyone who was killed in a fight; they would also eat men famed for their fighting ability who had died natural deaths "... out of pity and consideration for the body".[50]
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