Terry sez: > On the other hand: > > http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,665824,00.html > > 12/08/2009 > > Stone Age Mystery > German Excavation Reveals Signs of Mass Cannibalism > > By Angelika Franz > Was it mass cannibalism, ritual slaughter or both? Archaeologists > who unearthed the remains of 500 Stone Age corpses in the German > town of Herxheim say the meat was cut off their bones as if they > were livestock. One conclusion is that the people were eaten -- > after volunteering to be sacrificed.
For a less palatable interpretation of this practice see "The Road" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898367/ Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks

