Butchered bones reveal massacre in Bronze Age Britain

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3. cannibalism is generally taboo

if for no other reason than we taste bad, but the diseases transmitted can be pretty sevee.

reasons are generallt boiled down to starvation " the donner party or jamestown

or

ritual : some kind of funeral honor or an attempt to transfer the strength of an enemy

these guys were not even treated as human, so maybe some kind of demonstration of terror?

i've been speculating on this story since yesterday when i read it. none of it pleasant.

the cambridge link is probably the best one i;ve seen on the story, but still many questions.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/darker-angels-of-our-nature-early-bronze-age-butchered-human-remains-from-charterhouse-warren-somerset-uk/93EBB135C857C7B7992FC80A4ED927AF