Early human ate young Neanderthal

Thursday, May 21, 2009 - 14:14 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Sometime between 28,000 and 30,000 years ago, a modern human in what is now France may have eaten a Neanderthal child and made a necklace out of its teeth, according to a new study that suggests Europe's first humans had a violent relationship with their muscular, big-headed hominid ancestors.

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