Neanderthal remains with gnaw and bite marks?
Were they made by other Neanderthals?
Were Neanderthals cannibals?
If they were hungry enough.
Just like us...
(s) Alferd Packer
Yes. They find Neanderthal bones with cleaar butchering cut marks on them. Biting and gnawing could be from animals, but animals don't carve things...
The teeth marks could be those of the “moderns” — known to be cannibals — or could be animals, or could be a Neandertal group who lived in that cave who had just killed someone from another cave.
Hominids will turn cannibalistic if situations become dire enough. I’m sure lots of folks have heard of the Donner Party and that 1972 plane crash in the Andes and what happened there. I don’t know however how many people are aware of what Russians did during WW2 to survive when Leningrad was cutoff during the winter of 1941/42.
Regular Homo Sapiens practice cannibalism depending on circumstances. Ask the Donner Party.