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The rituals with which we humans farewell our dead have varied from time to time and from place to place. But one funerary practice thought perhaps relatively rare seems to have been more widespread than we thought.
What we don't have is a particularly good understanding of their funerary practices. Archaeologists had collected hints that these practices might have been quite different from those of today; in particular, bones from Gough's Cave in the Cheddar Gorge – yes, the home of the famoushumans.
But at 13 of the sites, human bones showed signs of postmortem manipulation – cut and tooth marks associated with butchering, eating, and repurposing the bones to be used as tools and vessels, such as cups or bowls made from human skulls. The remaining two sites showed evidence of both burial and cannibalism.
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