Neanderthals may have practised cannibalism
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01/10/1999
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Asian Age (New Delhi)
Butchered bones unearthed in a cave overlooking the Rhone Valley in France offer the most conclusive evidence to date that European Neanderthals practised cannibalism, archaeologists have reported in the journal Science. Bones of at least six individual Neanderthals -- two adults, two teenagers and two children-- showed clear signs of having been butchered, they said.