Experts at London’s National History Museum reviewed literature to identify 59 Magdalenian sites that have human remains. There was also evidence to suggest that in some cases human remains were mixed with those of animals. They found that there were two distinct ancestral groups present in the region during that period – one of Magdalenian culture and another called the Epigravettian, a different European and geographically-distinct human culture. Map of Magdalenian sites where cannibalism has been identified in northwestern Europe. “However, this study provides pretty convincing evidence that ritual funerary cannibalism was practiced by people across Europe 20,000-14,000 years ago.”

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Persons: Silvia Bello, ” Bello, “, ”, William Marsh, Thomas Booth, Francis Crick Organizations: CNN, Museum, History Museum, History, Francis Locations: Europe, England, France, Germany, Spain, Russia, United Kingdom, Belgium, Poland, Czech Republic, Portugal