CW: Death, Cannibalism, Bodily Harm, Body Waste, Body Fluids, Medical Harm
Cannibalism: The act of consuming another member of your own species. This episode we explore human cannibalism in a historical context— why did we do it? How common was it? How did things change since then?
This is the Encyclopedia of Anthropology which provides a detailed discussion of cannibalism around the world largely in tribal type societies.
This article talks about the different types of cannibalism in brief overviews, including the very hard to find information about: devotional cannibalism.
This is a fascinating transcript of an interview with the scientists who discovered what might be the earliest evidence of cannibalism in humans so far.
This article goes into some reasons scientists are looking at to see why ancient hominids might have turned to cannibalism.
This is just an article about Medical Cannibalism, which we talked about when we talked about people eating mummies. But this goes into other forms like Medical Vampirism (this is where the recipe for blood jam is).
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