Mystery Human Relative Appears to Have Been Butchered And Eaten 1.45 Million Years Ago
Mystery Human Relative Appears to Have Been Butchered And Eaten 1.45 Million Years Ago
Based on marks on an ancient bone, it seems someone got hungry enough to chow down on some hominin leg, some 1.45 million years ago.
The closest we can come is anthropophagy.
The other question that remains unanswered is whether or not it really is the oldest known evidence of anthropophagy.
There's a skull, between 1.5 million and 2.6 million years old, which has marks interpreted as made by a stone tool. That finding has been disputed; perhaps it's time we revisited that bone.
TL;DR: we don’t know a goddamn thing about fuckall, but we got a bone with some marks on it. Ancient aliens? Sure, why not.
You forgot the "Now fund my research!" part.
To be somewhat fair, I’m in the privileged position of being able to be sarcastic about a branch of science that I have no practical experience with whatsoever, all from the comfort of an app I type into using just my thumb. This is the kind of advancement that, a hundred years ago, would have been seen as merely impossible, and five hundred years ago or more would’ve gotten a person burned at a stake.
I can criticize anything I want, but my criticism (all things being equal) is very probably flawed and unwarranted. If I’m going to be sarcastic, I’d better be aware of how insignificant I am relative to the universe I find myself in.