Cannibalism

For years and years its been argued if cannibalism is world wide or confined to those remote parts of the world no ones ever heard of. But as evidence comes in, you’d be very naive to think that that is the case. Cannibalism is everywhere…even today. That’s right…it’s not something of ancient days and myths…and it’s not just in movies either. There are real life Hannibal Lecters out there…like Armin Meiwe of a small German town named Rotenburg an der Fulda. His neighbors called him quiet (it’s the quiet ones you’ve got to watch out for…), but quiet he was anything but.

In a chat room, in 2000, he met a man named Jurgen B who, as it appears, was a willing victim of cannibalism.

(Why you’d be willing to have someone eat you not in a sexual manner is beyond me, but who am I to judge..?)

Cannibalism has been something that has fascinated people since the dawn of time. And since then, cannibalism has been around. It is found in almost every species on Earth for some reason or another..

In the past several years, researchers have found overwhelming genetic and biochemical evidence that cannibalism was once perhaps an everyday thing…socially acceptable among every day people. Because of these findings, the people behind the research are not starting to think that because the consumption of human flesh was once so common place that people now have protection against diseases passed on by eating the flesh of humans.

(SO DIG IN EVERYONE WHILE ITS HOT!)

For a long time, the arguments that have been based on cannibalism have been focused on two main points of evidence. Documented accounts from anthropologists and explorers and the gashes in human bone found at anthropological dig sites; however, these new findings have re-sparked an old argument that goes back several decades.

A study done in 1951 on a historic Fijian culture concluded that aside from fish, humans are the most popular of the vertebrates used for food. There is enough archeological evidence to suppose that from cut-marked animal bones, animals were part a human diet, so that same logic should be applied to cut-marked human bones.

Bones of this nature have been popping up all over the world, all over history. For example, palaeoanthropologist Tim White discovered three 160,000-year-old fossil skulls in Ethiopia during a dig recently. More than being the oldest known fossils known of the modern human, each skull had tale-tale signs of being “defleshed”. White has also found fossils that date back 600,000 years on humanoid bones with the same type of marks from Neanderthal remains found in France.