Neanderthals Were Cannibals, Study Confirms


	Neanderthals Were Cannibals, Study Confirms

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12-6-2006 7:26 PM

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Neanderthals suffered periods of starvation and may have supplemented their diet through cannibalism, according to a study of <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/livescience/sc_livescience/storytext/neanderthalswerecannibalsstudyconfirms/21162516/SIG=18sj9nvab/*http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=061204_neandertal_fossil_02.jpg%26cap=Neandertal+fossil+bones+in+block+of+cemented+sand+and+clay%2C+with+foot+bones+on+left%2C+and+ribs+and+vertebra+on+right%2C+from+El+Sidr%F3n+cave+site%2C+Asturias%2C+Spain.">remains</A> from northwest Spain.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20061204/sc_livescience/neanderthalswerecannibalsstudyconfirms"><P>Paleobiologists studied samples from eight 43,000-year-old <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/livescience/sc_livescience/storytext/neanderthalswerecannibalsstudyconfirms/21162516/SIG=12bjrqes0/*http://www.livescience.com/history/050310_neanderthal_reconstruction.html">Neanderthal</A> skeletons excavated from an underground cave in El Sidrón, Spain since 2000. The study sheds light on how Neanderthals lived before the arrival of <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/livescience/sc_livescience/storytext/neanderthalswerecannibalsstudyconfirms/21162516/SIG=17vjpnbog/*http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=060508_human_evolution_02.jpg%26cap=The+timeline+of+human+evolution+is+long+and+controversial%2C+with+significant+gaps.+Experts+do+not+agree+on+many+of+the+start+and+end+points+of+va">modern humans</A> in Europe.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20061204/sc_livescience/neanderthalswerecannibalsstudyconfirms"><P>Researchers found cut marks and evidence that bones had been torn apart, which they say could indicate <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/livescience/sc_livescience/storytext/neanderthalswerecannibalsstudyconfirms/21162516/SIG=124ildufs/*http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/060227_hungry_crickets.html">cannibalism</A>. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20061204/sc_livescience/neanderthalswerecannibalsstudyconfirms"><P>"There is strong evidence suggesting that these Neanderthals were eaten," said the study's lead author, Antonio Rosas of the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid. "That is, long bones and the skull were broken for extraction of the <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/livescience/sc_livescience/storytext/neanderthalswerecannibalsstudyconfirms/21162516/SIG=126mh8b48/*http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/060724_fossil_bonemarrow.html">marrow</A>, [which] is very nutritious."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20061204/sc_livescience/neanderthalswerecannibalsstudyconfirms"><P>According to Rosas, there is evidence of cannibalism in Neanderthal remains from other European sites. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20061204/sc_livescience/neanderthalswerecannibalsstudyconfirms"><P>"I would say this practice… was general among Neanderthal populations," he said.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D78C455E-D791-4047-B82C-7A46B1327E5C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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