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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Science
Vishwam Sankaran

Early Europeans celebrated victory in war by eating their enemies’ brains, cave fossils show

Fossils unearthed from a Polish cave suggest early Europeans engaged in cannibalism, sometimes even eating the brains of their enemies, during a time of war about 18,000 years ago.

The findings, published in the journal Scientific Reports, shed more light on the mortuary and ritual practices of Magdalenian hunter-gatherers who lived in what is now Poland.

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