Germany - The ribs were picked clean, tongues cut out and the heads skinned, so that the tops of skulls could be sliced off like boiled eggs. Could this remarkably precise piece of butchery be evidence of the world’s first cannibal barbecue? An international team of archaeologists and anthropologists is puzzling over a discovery in Germany of about 500 prehistoric skeletons that seem to suggest that men, women and children were eaten as part of a sacrificial ritual to save their community. “We detected patterns on the bones of animals indicating that they had been spit-roasted,” Bruno Boulestin, an anthropologist from the University of Bordeaux who has been analysing 217 reassembled human bones from the site, said. ....More
