About 14,000 years ago, wasn’t a little thing known as an ice age either still underway or just coming to an end? Life was far from easy. While there were plenty of animals around, it took effort to hunt them and there was always risk of injury or death. I suspect canibalism was a matter of practicality – they didn’t want that much meat to go to waste.
Torg…It’s what’s for dinner.
I’ve long suspected that cannibalism was widespread in prehistoric times. Some of it might have been opportunistic (protein was protein), and it also may have happened when one nomadic tribe moved into another’s territory.
I think that if modern humans constructed a time machine and went back to the stone age, they would as likely kill us and eat us as say hello.
Human sacrifice was also common in early civilizations, and I believe that it was a ritualized vestige of ancient cannibalism.
Full disclosure: I’m not an anthropologist, and I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
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About 14,000 years ago, wasn’t a little thing known as an ice age either still underway or just coming to an end? Life was far from easy. While there were plenty of animals around, it took effort to hunt them and there was always risk of injury or death. I suspect canibalism was a matter of practicality – they didn’t want that much meat to go to waste.
Torg…It’s what’s for dinner.
I’ve long suspected that cannibalism was widespread in prehistoric times. Some of it might have been opportunistic (protein was protein), and it also may have happened when one nomadic tribe moved into another’s territory.
I think that if modern humans constructed a time machine and went back to the stone age, they would as likely kill us and eat us as say hello.
Human sacrifice was also common in early civilizations, and I believe that it was a ritualized vestige of ancient cannibalism.
Full disclosure: I’m not an anthropologist, and I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.