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Title: Controversial Signs of Mass Cannibalism
Post by: sam on December 06, 2009, 01:11

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At a settlement in what is now southern Germany, the menu turned gruesome 7,000 years ago. Over a period of perhaps a few decades, hundreds of people were butchered and eaten before parts of their bodies were thrown into oval pits, a new study suggests.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/12/controversial-signs-of-mass-cannibalism/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+(Wired%3A+Index+3+(Top+Stories+2))

Title: Re: Controversial Signs of Mass Cannibalism
Post by: Clive on December 06, 2009, 09:51

Yummy!  Tastes like chicken!   ;D

Title: Re: Controversial Signs of Mass Cannibalism
Post by: Simon on December 06, 2009, 11:01

 :ack:

Title: Re: Controversial Signs of Mass Cannibalism
Post by: Reno on December 06, 2009, 11:23

Nothin says lovin like a youngster in the oven.   ;)

Title: Re: Controversial Signs of Mass Cannibalism
Post by: Rik on December 06, 2009, 13:03

With my ancestry, I'm saying nothing...

Title: Re: Controversial Signs of Mass Cannibalism
Post by: sam on December 06, 2009, 16:33

Quote from: Clive on December 06, 2009, 09:51

Yummy!  Tastes like chicken!   ;D

aren't we more like pork...

Title: Re: Controversial Signs of Mass Cannibalism
Post by: Rik on December 06, 2009, 16:43

I think you're confusing two issue, Sam.  :devil:

Title: Re: Controversial Signs of Mass Cannibalism
Post by: Simon on December 06, 2009, 18:17

:hehe:

Title: Re: Controversial Signs of Mass Cannibalism
Post by: Reno on December 06, 2009, 21:43

Quote from: Rik on December 06, 2009, 13:03

With my ancestry, I'm saying nothing...

Which ancestry would that be rik? Go back 21 generations and you have over a million ancestors.

Title: Re: Controversial Signs of Mass Cannibalism
Post by: Rik on December 07, 2009, 08:14

17th C, the Sawney MacBeans (aka the Sawney Beans) made a living from highway robbery and used to eat the evidence...

Title: Re: Controversial Signs of Mass Cannibalism
Post by: Reno on December 07, 2009, 08:24

Google says its a fictitious horror story to tell little scottish kids.  
http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/scotland/dumfriesshire/legends/the-legend-of-sawney-bean.html

Edit: http://ediblebabies.ytmnd.com/
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Title: Re: Controversial Signs of Mass Cannibalism
Post by: Rik on December 07, 2009, 08:29

Google is wrong, they were hanged at Leith in 1622.

Title: Re: Controversial Signs of Mass Cannibalism
Post by: Reno on December 07, 2009, 08:34

Go back far enough and I'd bet we all have a cannibal ancestor, and a black ancestor, and an ancestor who was a prostitute, as well as a one that was a b*****d, and another with gonorrhea. It doesn't mean I'm gonna cry about it now. The only thing that matters about my heritage is its culmination. People think their heritage changes who they are. The only thing that matters in a persons life is what they do with it.

Title: Re: Controversial Signs of Mass Cannibalism
Post by: Rik on December 07, 2009, 15:19

I wouldn't argue with that, I'm quite amused to have cannibal ancestors, but I don't let it affect me. Chewing on Sue's earlobe is just a sign of affection. ;)

Title: Re: Controversial Signs of Mass Cannibalism
Post by: Simon on December 07, 2009, 21:52

Yeah, but I think she preferred it when it was still attached to her ear.  ;)

Title: Re: Controversial Signs of Mass Cannibalism
Post by: Clive on December 07, 2009, 23:27

 :haha:

Title: Re: Controversial Signs of Mass Cannibalism
Post by: Rik on December 08, 2009, 10:13

 ;D