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Post number 6092

zeoslap — Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:59:42 -0800

Mmmmm. Hu-ming. A British archaeologist finds evidence that cannibalism still existed amongst the Celts as recently as two thousand years ago, during Roman Times.

One grisly find includes a femur which had been split lengthways in order to scrape the marrow out. Tastemungus mates :)

By: CatherineB

CatherineB — Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:28:02 -0800

I spot a cheap Hannibal-zeitgeist cash-in...

By: holloway

holloway — Wed, 28 Feb 2001 14:24:51 -0800

So? Máori - the original inhabitants of New Zealand - ate others until 200 years ago.

By: megnut

megnut — Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:31:04 -0800

Cannibalism has been reported in New Guinea as recently as the early 1960's, and is one of the supposed causes of Michael Rockefeller's death.

By: Optamystic

Optamystic — Wed, 28 Feb 2001 20:17:33 -0800

Other objects found at the dig site include the remains of a plate of fava beans, and a nice chianti.

By: pracowity

pracowity — Thu, 01 Mar 2001 00:09:51 -0800

> Cannibalism ... is one of the supposed causes > of Michael Rockefeller's death. Ha! You mean being eaten by cannibals was just one of the things that killed him? That Rocky was one tough bird.

By: holgate

holgate — Thu, 01 Mar 2001 00:42:40 -0800

Yep, megnut: Papua New Guinea outlawed cannibalism very recently, for medical reasons, as ingestion of brain matter contributed to a virulent "sleeping sickness" akin to CJD/mad cow disease. [A political aside: the idea that a coherent "Celtish" civilisation existed in pre-Roman times is, itself, an 18th-century invention, created as a response to the attempts of the "British" (ie English) state to supress Scottish, Welsh and Irish nationalism.]