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Stone Age Farmers in Spain Ate Their Dead for 15 Centuries: Cannibalism recurred in 3 caves near Granada across roughly 15 centuries, in at least 3 separate Neolithic episodes. Bones can prove human bodies were processed, yet they cannot reveal whether it was warfare, mourning, or something else.


One cave holds a likely massacre, one holds cups made from skulls, one holds young bones stained red. Same cut marks in all three.

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