Re: Evidence Of Cannibalism At Krapina Neandertal Site

Philip Deitiker wrote:
>> In sci.anthropology.paleo, Ed Stasiak created a
>> message ID news:1114666521.438688.297830
>> @f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:
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>>>> Philip Deitiker wrote
>>>>
>>>> Defleshing prevents predators or even competitor
>>>> tribes from taking gain from the dead or ones group
>>>> and prevents them from becoming familiar with eating
>>>> your kind.
>>>
>>> If this was the reason and not cannibalism, then what
>>> was done with all the meat removed from the bones?
>>
>> Fed to the pet wolves, places on a platform and eaten by
>> carrion eaters, burn as one would burn an offering to the
>> gods, consumed by close family members, thrown in the river,
>> the ocean, placed in giant ant mounds, taken to the back of a
>> cave where it was consumed by cave bettle larvae, placed in
>> hollowed tree stumps and allowed to rot collecting the
>> dangerous botulinum toxin that results and then using it to
>> dart predators and competitors, placed on a dugout pushed into
>> the middle of a lake and set on fire, taken to the local
>> volcanoe and thrown in the caldron as an offering, used as
>> bait to catch predators, used as bait to catch fish, cut into
>> long strips dried and used to whip the younger members of the
>> group, placed on a floating ice berg, parse and used to make
>> cloths and household goods out of. Tied to the rocks and eaten
>> by crabs on the shoreline, planted in a place of the most
>> favored fruit trees as fertilizer (blood meal), . . . or . . .
>> IOW, how should I know?
>>
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>> Philip
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Well that's all a little ICKY. I like dig smaller holes better.

Jois


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