Ice Age puzzles: Researchers reveal mysterious cannibalism!
Ice Age puzzles: Researchers reveal mysterious cannibalism!
Discoveries from the late ice age throw dark shadows on the survival of our ancestors. Researchers have discovered clear traces of cannibalism on human remains from the Maszycka cave in southern Poland who lived 18,000 years ago. As the University of Göttingen explains in a current publication, the analyzes on 63 bones of ten individuals clearly show that these people have been systematically disassembled and eaten. Slitters on skull fragments indicate the separation of scalp and muscles, while long bones were broken to get to the nutritious bone marrow. This suggests that violent conflicts about resources have taken place in a time of direct food shortages, because despite the evidence of violent cannibalism, it is unlikely that it would be purely out of lack of survival, since artistic certificates from the time indicate favorable living conditions, such as OE24 .
genetic insights into the ice age people
At the same time, scientists also present exciting knowledge about the migratory movements of the early people during the last ice age. A study published in the “Nature” journal analyzed the genomes of 356 individuals of old cultures from Europe and Central Asia. This genetic analysis is the largest data record that has ever been created about European hunters and collectors. According to the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, the results show that people of Gravettien culture, which lived between 32,000 and 24,000 years, develop differently depending on the region. While the populations in Western Europe, especially in France and the Iberian Peninsula, survived, the eastern and southern groups left hardly genetic traces of around 25,000 to 19,000 years ago after the cold ax. zeitung.de/news/studie-so-uberlebten-europaer-einst-das-eiszezeit-li.323307"> Berliner Zeitung describes that these results support the theory that people during the coldest phases of the ice age in geographically beneficial regions search for their survival secure.The research team, which consists of 125 scientists, has also found that the migration of people from the Balkans to the Italian peninsula and then in the rest of the regions of Europe are closely linked to the climate changes and the resulting availability of resources. In the period of global warming about 14,000 years ago, these groups spread across Europe, which led to the displacement of previous populations.
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| Ort | Maszycka-Höhle, Südpolen, Polen |
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