[quote]ANCIENT Britons devoured their dead and created gruesome goblets from the skulls of their remains, according to new research published on Wednesday.
Researchers from London's Natural History Museum discovered 15,000-year-old human bones in southern England which showed signs of cannibalism and skulls made into drinking cups.
The skulls - found in Gough's Cave in the Cheddar Gorge in the south-western English county of Somerset - had been meticulously cleaned of soft tissue, cut to remove the base and facial bones, and had their rough edges smoothed to create skull-cups or bowls, palaeontologist Silvia Bello wrote in a study in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS ONE.
'All in all it was a very painstaking process given the tools available,' Mr Bello said in a statement. The researchers said the cups may have been used as containers or for some ritualistic purpose.
'It's impossible to know how the skull-cups were used back then, but in recent examples they may hold blood, wine or food during rituals,' said Chris Stringer, who helped excavate one of the skull-cups in 1987. At about 14,700 years old, the skull-cups from Gough's Cave are the oldest directly dated examples in the world, the researchers said.
They said the circumstances behind the deaths of the Cro-Magnons (European early modern humans), whose bones they discovered, can only be guessed at. They may have been killed, butchered and eaten - with the skull-cups just the end of this event - or may have been part of the group who died and were eaten in a crisis situation, with the skull-cups created as a tribute to the dead. 'We simply do not know,' they said in a joint emailed response to questions.[/quote]
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damn, thank god our family hails from former Czechoslovakia and Germany.
[I]"Would you like a cup of tea with this leg?"[/I]
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Are you a wizard
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I wouldn't be surprised if this happened in other places in history as well.
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Holy jesus fuck what the hell is that.... THING.
how about a nice skull of tea eh chaps?
[QUOTE=reywilnc;28098461]Are you a wizard[/QUOTE]
No;
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Also, Vikings > Brits.
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POY thread is over there
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Just put a cork into each socket.
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The eyes don't actually open up into a cavity.
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At last, we know how chavs originated.
Rate agree if you already knew this.
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I wouldn't be surprised if this happened in other places in history as well.[/QUOTE]
To say that ancient Brits were the only people to eat dead would be ridiculous.
[QUOTE=Vasili;28099768]To say that ancient Brits were the only people to eat dead would be ridiculous.[/QUOTE]
Well, eating the living is no fun, they squirm around and yell.
[QUOTE=Vasili;28099768]To say that ancient Brits were the only people to eat dead would be ridiculous.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I bet the Welsh probably do the same thing today.
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I always knew I could relate to the brits somehow.
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What? I already knew this!
I was only asking if anyone else did. :smith:
[QUOTE=Miskatonic;28099250]The eyes don't actually open up into a cavity.
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They would if you made a fucking [i]cup[/i] out of it
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Well I have some brits in the family history, and now I know what to eat when I'm hungry.
Corpses.
I'm sure a lot of ancient civilizations did this too.
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