The caves that prove Neanderthals were cannibals

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The caves that prove Neanderthals were cannibals
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By Philippe SIUBERSKI (AFP)     3 hours ago in World

Deep in the caves of Goyet in Belgium researchers have found the grisly evidence that the Neanderthals did not just feast on horses or reindeer, but also on each other.

Human bones from a newborn, a child and four adults or teenagers who lived around 40,000 years ago show clear signs of cutting and of fractures to extract the marrow within, they say.

"It is irrefutable, cannibalism was practised here," says Belgian archaeologist Christian Casseyas as he looks inside a cave halfway up a valley in this site in the Ardennes forest.

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a cave in Belgium is being used to paint a broad brush

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They used to boil dead human travellers and send the bones home for burial

some people used to keep parts of their departed family members, maybe make a ring or necklace of a bone to remember them by, and at some point in history used the skulls of their enemies as cups

None of that was cannibalism