Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeological excavation work at El Mirador site, where archeologists are finding evidence of prehistoric human cannibalism. Some ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo of a femur bone, with a zoomed inset showing crush marks Humans living on the Iberian Peninsula during the late Neolithic ...

On a limestone ridge in northern Spain, archaeologists uncovered a single 850,000-year-old vertebra, covered in cut marks. The human bone was uncovered at the Gran Dolina cave site in the Sierra de ...

Researchers say the discoveries are “inconsistent with ritual or survival scenarios.” A team of researchers led by Francesc Marginedas, of the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social ...

Archaeologists excavating the Gran Dolina cave in Atapuerca, northern Spain, have uncovered the earliest direct evidence of prehistoric human cannibalism ever recorded in Europe. However, the most ...

The decapitated remains of an infant discovered at the Gran Dolina archaeological site in Burgos, Spain, may be the earliest evidence of cannibalism in Europe. The child’s vertebra, dated to 850,000 ...

Butchered human remains found in a cave in northern Spain suggest that Neolithic people may have eaten their enemies after killing them in combat. Francesc Marginedas at the Catalan Institute of Human ...

Ancient human remains found in a cave in northern Spain show signs of violence and cannibalism. Maria D. Guillén IPHES-CERCA In the karst mountains of northern Spain, a cave once held an ancient ...

Your column of September 23, 1988, addresses whether cannibalism is routinely practiced anywhere and concludes it is not. But why not? One argument in favor of cannibalism is simply that it is food.