Idiots. Is it more likely a warrior species, which lived in small family units, nursed its sick, and was highly K-selected began eating its own? Or is it possible as the glaciers retreated, lots of more r-selected sapiens/manboons flooded up from the warmer south, reproduced beyond all measure like a virus using a more r-selected breeding strategy, and began eating Neanderthals when they ran out of food?
As in a lot of cases, Vault-Co was a century or more ahead of these idiots.
I wholeheartedly agree.
Wait, what's Vault-Co?
The idea of cannibalism having been rare has always suggested that it may have been outsiders or rather other human types (including moderns, who are known to have practiced cannibalism for a long, long time -- that's probably the main reason for the prohibition of eating pork, imho). Some of the early hominids developed a practice of finding a nice small nook or cranny to sleep in, and collected rocks to pile up in the entrance so they could get some sleep without being konked and eaten, or eaten by other predators.
agree. more likely the neanderthals were eaten by the homo sapiens.