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Post by Ian Thomas on Sept 21, 2023 21:59:01 GMT 10
Yecch. Doesn't bear thinking about - but does lend credence to the Neanderthal=Cannibalistic-Top-Predator hypothesis. 🥩 Seems our own ancestors had mighty unpleasant neighbours to cope with.
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Post by dennisw on Sept 22, 2023 10:24:08 GMT 10
I guess it would be racist to claim cannibalism was recorded in Australia in the early days of white settlement, especially as I don't have the full report I will follow up and get the details. In the meantime we can joke about it. Attachment Deleted |
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Post by johannes on Sept 22, 2023 20:49:35 GMT 10
Those Tcho-Tchos had not even made it to H. heidelbergensis grade, leave alone Neanderthal. Speaking of infanticide, pretty much all culltures in SE Asia - and as far west as Ceylon - have ancient tales that go: "First our ancestors were living in peace with the forest people, but then they stole a baby, so we drove them into a cave and lightened a big fire at the entrance of the cave so that nobody could escape."
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Post by Ian Thomas on Sept 22, 2023 21:16:45 GMT 10
I guess it would be racist to claim cannibalism was recorded in Australia in the early days of white settlement ...View Attachment Definitely racist, un-woke, un-PC and politically incorrect, Denny! You in for a spell in the "bad odour corner" ... 
But then, yeah, I too have have read tales of Australian aboriginal cannibalism.''Twas reported to be near universal in Queensland and northern NSW, especially among coastal aboriginals. This was thought due to the proximity of Melanesia and 'cultural' influences therefrom. It was reported that aboriginals particularly relished Chinese gold prospectors as they were considered tastier than Europeans. Perhaps the Asian diet of rice & vegetables lends a more flavoursome taste to human meat?  |
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Post by dennisw on Sept 23, 2023 14:28:44 GMT 10
Paul Hogan and Ernie Dingo got away with it in Crocodile Dundee 2 when Ernie's mate asks, "Can we eat them?"
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Post by johannes on Oct 4, 2023 21:26:05 GMT 10
It has been suggested that rock carvings in the Isturitz cave - of homothere fame, this place has a lot to answer for - depict Neanderthals, and that has been interpreted that they were hunted and eaten, because most cave art depicts prey animals. However, the carvings might be political caricatures, depicting enemy leaders as Frazetta men, or maybe the artist tried to depict a religeous vision of a shaman in the middle if the process of turning into his spirit animal, or maybe the carver just wanted to make a joke, who knows...
Anyway, medical canniblism was practised well into the 1920ies, with Mumia Vera (Ground Mummy) sold in every pharmacy.
President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, currently the worlds longest serving head of state (and one of the richest men on earth), also has been rumored to have eaten his uncle and predecessor, Francisco Macias Nguema. Not that Macias was a beacon of enlightment, he considered himself a were-leopard, and he made the use of the word "intellectual" (whatever this means in a country with an average IQ of 58) illegal. His Guinean conpatriots were so afraid of him that Teodoro found no volunteers to form a firing squad, finally the French sent some Maroccans to do the job.
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Post by Ian Thomas on Oct 4, 2023 21:42:22 GMT 10
The capture of albinos and consumption of their body-parts for medical(?) reasons is popular in Africa, so I believe. So popular indeed there are commercial albino-hunters who supply demand ... I have an idea Charlie Munger once said something along the lines of, "Where something is rewarded it will be promoted." Although I don't suppose he had cannibalism in mind. |
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