Decades ago, archaeologists unearthed two large Neolithic stone tombs in northern Spain dating to the fourth millennium B.C. that contained the remains of more than two dozen men, women and children, in addition to flint arrowheads, bone awls, stone tools and pottery fragments. Now, a new analysis of the people’s bones has revealed that a huge number of them were fractured and fragmented perimortem — around or just after the time of death.
Last time I saw a program that talked about splitting bones like this, they mentioned it as a clear sign that they were doing it specifically to extract the nutritious marrow. Yeah it was animal bones, but bones are bones.
They can say that they don’t want to say it was cannibalism all they want, but it was probably cannibalism.
