[curmudgeonII]

Eleven of the 34 remains had shattered or missing skulls and chopped skeletons

This may have been due to canabalism which was not unhear of in Asia. [Kuru, a prion disease [like mad cow] among humans in New Guinea, is spread by eating brain material from other humans.]

[blam]

" [Kuru, a prion disease [like mad cow] among humans in New Guinea, is spread by eating brain material from other humans.]"

Yup. They thought that by eating the brains of their dead that they could retain the wisdom, etc. of that person.

[Cronos]

This may have been due to canabalism which was not unhear of in Asia

CAnnabilism was practised int he British isles until the 18th century (there was the family of cannibals that were caught then).

however, Kuru is found amongst the stone age tribes in Papua New Guinea who are Afroid no Caucasoid or Mongoloid