The Neolithic was an evolutionary and social turning point for humans—and these changes sometimes took a dark turn.

Ancient human remains from three caves in southern Spain are revealing a disturbing but complex chapter in Europe’s ...

Cannibalism was sometimes on the Neolithic menu, as numerous archaeological discoveries have revealed. But while ancient ...

You must have heard or read about human cannibalism in novels, or seen it in horror movies. Cannibalism is the act of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeological excavation work at El Mirador site, where archeologists are finding evidence of prehistoric human cannibalism. Some ...

Skulls had been turned into cups, some bones had been boiled, but the reason these stone age people were eating other humans ...

Ancient human fossils unearthed at three different caves in Spain reveal that cannibalism resurfaced among early Europeans in ...

For decades, prehistoric cannibalism has tended to be interpreted as a single type of behavior,” Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo, a ...

A recent investigation of human remains found in the UK’s Cheddar Gorge has once again brought a particularly unsavory aspect of our human story into the light: human consumption of other humans. The ...

Analysis of nearly 1,000 bones found in three caves in Granada shows that cannibalism was a recurring Neolithic practice, ...

Why has cannibalism, one of the strongest cultural taboos in human societies, repeatedly emerged throughout history, and at the same time been rigorously prohibited? A new study reports that a “surviv ...

One of humanity's oldest taboos may be less about morals and more about microbes. Researchers in Poland and the Czech Republic used a mathematical model to argue that societies practicing cannibalism ...