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Post by Matthew on Sept 15, 2005 16:21:31 GMT -5
The Aztecs killed and ate people, as do some peoples of the South Pacific. It's not peculiar to them. However, I do find it delightfully interesting.
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Post by zemelmete on Sept 16, 2005 2:49:58 GMT -5
Perhaps all our distant ancestors were cannibals.
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Post by Matthew on Sept 16, 2005 11:07:23 GMT -5
I believe it
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Post by nockwasright on Sept 20, 2005 4:17:49 GMT -5
Ancient writer Pseudo Cesario called Slavs "boobs eaters" (sounds more credible in latin). It is thought that the expression referred to the cutting of breasts, which toghether with baby killing, was a method to contain the demographic growth (A. Vaillant, Le traitè contre les Bogomiles du pretre Cosmas, in Revue de estudes slaves, XXI (1944).
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Post by Ilmatar on Sept 21, 2005 1:02:06 GMT -5
Infantocide was almost certainly widely practised in the NE Europe before the introduction of the Christian fate to the area. It has been calculated that there might not have been more than 50 000 inhabitants in Finland (Finland Proper, Tavastia, Carelia) in the early 12th century. It's thought that that the number had remained stable for centuries. When the first census was held in Sweden in the mid 16th century the number had risen to 250 000. Given the fact there were various epidemies in the middle it's almost certain that there had been a radical change of manners in the middle.
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Post by dukeofpain on Sept 22, 2005 0:20:00 GMT -5
I think most all animals that eat meat would resort to cannibalism, I know some even resort to eating carrion. If I had the choice I would much rather eat the former.
I'm pretty sure Infanticide was common everywhere for a long time, even today it's not taboo in certain parts of Asia as it is in the west. I know the roman stoics practiced it in some instances. It only became taboo with the evolution of Christianity.
Many japanese soldiers were cannibals only 60 years ago. Out of choice also, not necessity. In many instances cannibalism was planned by the higher-ups so as to be a food resource for the army, like on Chi Chi Jima island. Apparently there are instances of american soldiers being eaten, and even encouraged to be eaten by command.
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Post by Educate Me on Sept 22, 2005 0:56:49 GMT -5
the uruguayans who ate their dead friends in the andes
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