Three Stone Age Caves Reveal Continual Cannibalism

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorResearchers who toured three Stone Age caves in southern Spain say people there appear to have eaten their dead, over many generations, as a funeral practice, the New York Times reports.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe study looked at nearly one thousand human bones from three caves in Granada.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentOne cave alone had seven hundred fourteen fragments, from at least thirty-six people.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSeven hundred fourteen fragments. Handle them with the solemnity of a state funeral, Kenji, because that is clearly what they were.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentIt's a funeral, Vera. That's the whole finding. It was the funeral.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThen it was a bereavement service with a reception, and the reception was the deceased.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe researchers say all three caves show it, but the timing and the form differ. So three caves, three house styles.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorDifferent styles, one mission. I'd call that a consistent brand across a diverse portfolio of sites.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe Malalmuerzo bones date from about fifty-three hundred to forty-nine fifty B.C. That's fifteen hundred years of the same memorial format. Nobody changed anything.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThree caves, many generations, and not one of them ever left a bad review.