There's Only So Many Ways to Skin a Human - Ep 163

A Life In Ruins

On this episode of A Life in Ruins Podcast, Connor and Carlton dive deep into the topic of cannibalism in the past and present. They start out talking about what prompted them to dive down this rabbit hole. They define the terms associated with cannibalism and then discuss the earliest known evidence of cannibalism in the archaeological record. They then detail other examples of cannibalism in time and end the episode asking the important question “Is drinking blood considered cannibalism?”.

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Transcripts

For rough transcripts of this episode go to https://www.archpodnet.com/ruins/163

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/MHuLH5pztT0

Links

• Evidence of Neanderthal Cannibalism Found in Spanish Cave
• Oumph! Plant Based Human Meat
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Literature Recommendations

• Early Pleistocene cut marked hominin fossil from Koobi Fora, Kenya by Pobiner et al
• Were Neanderthals responsible for their own extinction? by Jordi Agustí and Xavier Rubio-Campillo
• Archaeological Evidence for Cannibalism in Prehistoric Western Europe: from Homo antecessor to the Bronze Age by Palmira Saladié & Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo

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