Know Thyself 3: Primate, Protohuman , and Prehistoric Cannibalism
The History of Being Human
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Cannibalism: The Archetypical Sign of Otherness
Cannibalism has a stigma. Western culture equates it with folk stories of ogres, the tale of Jack in the Beanstalk and horror stories like Hannibal the Cannibal. Archaeologists realize that there is a ton of baggage associated with concluding that cannibalism was practiced among the Anasazi people. So I don't know what the truth is. Was it witch-killing? Was it a ritual dismemberment of a corpse, or was it just cannibalism?
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