Topic: Controversial Signs of Mass Cannibalism

[sam]

At a settlement in what is now southern Germany, the menu turned gruesome 7,000 years ago. Over a period of perhaps a few decades, hundreds of people were butchered and eaten before parts of their bodies were thrown into oval pits, a new study suggests.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/12/controversial-signs-of-mass-cannibalism/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+(Wired%3A+Index+3+(Top+Stories+2))

[Clive]

Yummy!  Tastes like chicken!   

[Simon]

 

[Reno]

Nothin says lovin like a youngster in the oven.   

[Rik]

With my ancestry, I'm saying nothing...

[sam]

Yummy!  Tastes like chicken!   

aren't we more like pork...

[Rik]

I think you're confusing two issue, Sam. 

[Simon]

[Reno]

With my ancestry, I'm saying nothing...

Which ancestry would that be rik? Go back 21 generations and you have over a million ancestors.

[Rik]

17th C, the Sawney MacBeans (aka the Sawney Beans) made a living from highway robbery and used to eat the evidence...

[Reno]

Google says its a fictitious horror story to tell little scottish kids.  
http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/scotland/dumfriesshire/legends/the-legend-of-sawney-bean.html

Edit: http://ediblebabies.ytmnd.com/

[Rik]

Google is wrong, they were hanged at Leith in 1622.

[Reno]

Go back far enough and I'd bet we all have a cannibal ancestor, and a black ancestor, and an ancestor who was a prostitute, as well as a one that was a b*****d, and another with gonorrhea. It doesn't mean I'm gonna cry about it now. The only thing that matters about my heritage is its culmination. People think their heritage changes who they are. The only thing that matters in a persons life is what they do with it.

[Rik]

I wouldn't argue with that, I'm quite amused to have cannibal ancestors, but I don't let it affect me. Chewing on Sue's earlobe is just a sign of affection.

[Simon]

Yeah, but I think she preferred it when it was still attached to her ear.