Jul 31, 2025 — The vertebra from Spain's Gran Dolina cave may show that an ancient human relative cannibalized its own kind, though not all scientists ...

Jun 26, 2023 — Cut marks on a fossil leg bone belonging to a relative of modern humans were made by stone tools and could be evidence of cannibalism.

Human cannibalism is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings. A person who practices cannibalism is called a ...

Jun 26, 2023 — “We just know that some tool-wielding hominin came and cut meat off of that bone,” says paleoanthropologist Briana Pobiner of the Smithsonian's ...

Many of the bones were chewed by humans. Long bones and ribs had been cracked open and gnawed to extract marrow and grease. Other bones show cut marks where ...

Jun 26, 2023 — A case of cannibalism? Smithsonian, CSU researchers uncover how humans' relatives butchered one another 1.45 million years ago · A telling cut · A ...

by RW Byard · 2023 · Cited by 9 — Human cannibalism or anthropophagy, however, is far less common, although it has occurred for millennia in a wide range of human societies and

by F Marginedas · 2025 · Cited by 2 — In France alone, cut marks generated during the defleshing of the bodies have been documented on 93 Magdalenian individuals, approximately

Jul 24, 2025 — Around 850,000 years ago, a toddler was decapitated and cannibalized, cut marks on one of their neck bones suggest. The bone, which belonged to ...

Apr 6, 2017 — A new study estimates the nutritional value of human flesh and challenges the belief that prehistoric humans engaged in cannibalism just to ...

Marks on the bones clearly reveal that these early humans filleted the chewing muscles from the heads of two young Neanderthals, sliced out the tongue of at ...

Jun 26, 2023 — Nine cut marks on a fossilized shin bone suggest that ancient human relatives butchered and possibly ate one another 1.45 million years ago, according to a new ..

The findings from the Charterhouse Warren site reveal that the evidence of butchery and cannibalism may indicate a practice of 'othering' enemies.See more

Jun 26, 2023 — Without hominin tooth marks on the bone, cut marks are the strongest evidence of potential anthropophagy, or cannibalism - one member of a ...See more

by SM Bello · 2015 · Cited by 121 — Cut-marked and broken human bones seem to be a recurrent feature of Magdalenian (∼15–12,000 years BP [before present]) sites (Le Mort an

Dec 22, 2024 — Prehistoric remains from nearly 4000 years ago point to a grisly period of cannibalism in the UK.

by SM Bello · 2017 · Cited by 61 — A human radius from Gough's Cave shows evidence of cut marks, percussion damage and human tooth marks, indicative of cannibalism.See more

by SM Bello · 2025 · Cited by 3 — In the case of endo-cannibalism, the cutting of the human corpses was very similar to the cutting of animals, with initial disembowelment to 

Jun 26, 2023 — Briana Pobiner and team have described nine cut marks on a 1.45-million-year-old shin bone that hails from a Homo sapiens relative, found in northern Kenya in ...

Jun 26, 2023 — Cut-up prehistoric bone raises questions about early human cannibalism. Markings on a fossilized tibia make for a bloody 'whodunnit' 1.45 million years in the ...