The modern history of Western Europe is defined by opposition. Europe is presented as a beacon of civilisation facing down the barbarous masses that populated the rest of the world, and one of the customs that, for centuries, stood between Europeans and the rest of the world was cannibalism.
While it is often portrayed as one of the cruellest and most horrifying practices imaginable, my recent research shows that humans ingested other humans’ body parts in Western Europe, both in prehistoric times and throughout the centuries that followed.
