An Upper Palaeolithic engraved human bone associated with ritualistic cannibalism.

Cut-marked and broken human bones are a recurrent feature of Magdalenian (~17-12,000 years BP, uncalibrated dates) European sites. Human remains at Gough's Cave (UK) have been modified as part of a Magdalenian mortuary ritual that combined the intensive processing of entire corpses to extract e...

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Main Authors: Silvia M Bello, Rosalind Wallduck, Simon A Parfitt, Chris B Stringer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0182127&type=printable
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