Early Britons May Have Been Cannibals (The Times; 08.08.09)

Early Britons could have been cannibals, research has suggested. Cut marks made by a stone tool, and a fracture, were noticed on a 9,000-year-old human arm bone found in 1866 in Kent´s Cavern, Devon. Rich Schulting, an archaeologist at the University of Oxford, said: "The location of the fracture is where the cut would be made if dismemberment had taken place. The fact the markings are all in the same place indicates they were made to remove muscle attachments from the bone while it was still ´fresh´."


The bone is part of an exhibition at Torquay Museum until September 6.

http://www.kents-cavern.co.uk/