Ancient human relative cannibalized toddlers, 850,000-year-old neck bone reveals

Fragment of a human bone with cut marks against a black background.

Around 850,000 years ago, a toddler was decapitated and cannibalized, cut marks on one of their neck bones suggest.

The bone, which belonged to an archaic human relative, was found at the Gran Dolina cave at the archaeological site of Atapuerca in northern Spain. An analysis of the bone indicates that the child was between 2 and 5 years old when they died.