Evidence from El MiradorCave suggests Neolithic farmers cannibalized enemies. Credit. M.D.Guillén / IPHES / CC BY 4.0 ... Larger bones had been cracked open, most likely to extract the marrow ... A 5,700-year-old mystery from Atapuerca solved in the lab ... ....
Excavations at the site of Gran Dolina, in Atapuerca, Spain... A child’s neck bone, bearing precise cut marks, was found in the Gran Dolina cave at the Atapuerca archaeological site and dates back roughly 850,000 years.
A chilling discovery at Spain's�Atapuerca archaeological site�has revealed new evidence of systematic cannibalism among our earliest European ancestors.