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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists have discovered the site of a Neolithic cannibalistic feast in a cave in northern Spain, south of Bilbao. Around ...

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 ...

Eating human brains might seem relegated to zombie flicks, but a new study found that European warriors did just that 18,000 years ago, per “noodle”-slurping study in the journal Scientific Reports.

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 ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. If you thought human sacrifice was as bad as it got in Iron Age Britain, analysis of bones from the sites of ritual killings point to an even more ...

Researchers in Poland have found more evidence of violent cannibalism in the wake of the coldest period of the last Ice Age. Reading time 2 minutes In the 19th century, archaeologists in Poland ...

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 ...