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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Martin Bagot

Cannibals who used human skulls as cups were one of the first migrants in Britain

Cannibal tribes who used human skulls as cups were among some of the earliest humans to migrate to Britain, researchers found.

The oldest human DNA data ever obtained in the UK shows two distinct groups of early humans migrated here around the end of the last Ice Age.

Researchers from University College London, the Natural History Museum and the Francis Crick Institute analysed to sets of skeletal remains from up to 15,000 years ago.

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