Quote Originally Posted by Canuck of NI View Post
I too want to know more, particularly about the cannibal angle. Knife marks on the bones would show they were defleshed, but more than one culture has done that for ceremonial rather than dining purposes. So, are there human gnaw marks on them as well? Were the long bones broken open and the marrow scooped out? Was a "How To Cook Your Kin" paleo-cookbook found nearby?
I don't mean to get involved with the discussion, Canuck of NI, but here is a link to the journal source article that the news articles are attempting to summarize. I decided to post it rather than PM it to you.
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:...l.pone.0017026
And I am going to copy and paste the citation provided.

Bello SM, Parfitt SA, Stringer CB (2011) Earliest Directly-Dated Human Skull-Cups. PLoS ONE 6(2): e17026. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0017026Editor: Michael Petraglia, University of Oxford, United KingdomReceived: October 22, 2010; Accepted: January 19, 2011; Published: February 16, 2011Copyright: © 2011 Bello et al.
It would be interesting to see what beloitpiper has to say about the research.

Hope that helps.