Scientists Found Cut Marks on a 850,000-Year-Old Human Neck Bone. Was It ... Cannibalism?

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After the discovery of a child aged 2 to 4 years beheaded 850,000 years ago, Spanish researchers concluded that the first humans were certainly cannibals.

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The oldest evidence of human presence on the European continent would also be linked with the oldest evidence of cannibalism on the Old Continent. To reach this conclusion, archaeologists from the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (Iphes) exhumed, in Spain, the body of a child between 2 and 4 years old who has been decapitated and whose flesh has been consumed... by his congeners. Homo antecessor ate his dead. The genu…