Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeological excavation work at El Mirador site, where archeologists are finding evidence of prehistoric human cannibalism. Some ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo of a femur bone, with a zoomed inset showing crush marks Humans living on the Iberian Peninsula during the late Neolithic ...

Researchers say the discoveries are “inconsistent with ritual or survival scenarios.” A team of researchers led by Francesc Marginedas, of the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social ...

'Extreme exploitation': Spanish archaeologists find signs of war cannibalism from 5,700 years ago Deep within El Mirador Cave in northern Spain, researchers have uncovered bone-chilling evidence of ...

A cave in Belgium has revealed unsettling evidence that Neanderthals selectively cannibalized outsiders, focusing on women and children. The victims weren’t from the local group and appear to have ...

Archaeologists excavating the El Mirador cave in northern Spain have found physical evidence of prehistoric cannibalism. Maria D. Guillén / IPHES-CERCA Some 5,700 years ago, a Neolithic farming ...

Butchered human remains found in a cave in northern Spain suggest that Neolithic people may have eaten their enemies after killing them in combat. Francesc Marginedas at the Catalan Institute of Human ...

Ancient human remains found in a cave in northern Spain show signs of violence and cannibalism. Maria D. Guillén IPHES-CERCA In the karst mountains of northern Spain, a cave once held an ancient ...

Human cannibalism has appeared at different points in history across the world. In most cases, it was linked to warfare, ritual belief, survival crises, or punishment systems. Modern nations no longer ...

Your column of September 23, 1988, addresses whether cannibalism is routinely practiced anywhere and concludes it is not. But why not? One argument in favor of cannibalism is simply that it is food.