Earliest Europeans Were Cannibals, Wore Bling

Discovery News ^ | 7-6-2011 | Jennifer Viegas

[Renfield]

* The earliest known modern humans from southeast Europe wore shell and mammoth jewelry. * The same early humans also likely practiced cannibalism. * The cannibalism was tied to funeral rituals, since the bones were not butchered like meat.

Early humans wore jewelry and likely practiced cannibalism, suggest remains of the earliest known Homo sapiens from southeastern Europe.

The remains, described in PLoS One, date to 32,000 years ago and represent the oldest direct evidence for anatomically modern humans in a well-documented context. The human remains are also the oldest known for our species in Europe to show post-mortem cut marks....

[Ax]

Is that the same cannibal that passed his brother in the woods?

[bunkerhill7]

What did one Cro-Magon cannibal say to the other Cro-Magnon cannibal?
`Oh do you remember that Neanderthal guy that always hung around the bone pit?
Well, I had him over for lunch on Saturday.`

[Joe 6-pack]

I suspect ‘bling’ is really a practical innovation in an archaic society where wearing your most valuable/sacred possessions around your neck and carrying them everywhere were simply the only means of securing them.

[TheOldLady]

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[LibertyRocks]

“Wow, look at the size of that rock Ugg is wearing! Is that a genuine Fossil sundial he’s got on?”
“I don’t know, but he looks good enough to eat!”
;)

[SunkenCiv]

;’)

[Slings and Arrows]

Hannibal Lecter was European.

[dsc]

“Why did the author of this piece use the word “Bling?” Was she born and raised in the Ghetto, and only speaks Ebonics?”

Why pass up a chance to demonstrate solidarity with an oppressed minority?

BTW: Use of the word “ghetto” is just an attempt to steal credibility from the Jews, who actually were forced to live in them, sometimes being locked in at night.

Our minorities live in slums, not ghettos, and these places are slums because they turned them into slums. Except for housing projects, they were all respectable neighborhoods at some point.

I have pity for young people who are forced to become thugs by slightly older thugs, who are beaten if they do well in school because that is “too white,” who don’t understand why they should puke when somebody says “stay black.”

However, if I see a mob of them with bricks and clubs headed for my domicile, I will use the minimum amount of force necessary to ensure the safety of my wife and children.