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Know Thyself 3: Primate, Protohuman , and Prehistoric Cannibalism

The History of Being Human

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The History of the Sky Burial

When researchers come across the butchered remains of humans, they have to make a decision. And these can present difficulties of interpretation for anthropologists. So in Gough's Cave, they found the remains of five to seven people. They concluded that this was an example of either cannibalism or just the removal of flesh after death.

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