 | Yorkshire (England) - 1870 - 468 pages
...of these people, which even historic evidence might lead u« to look for. It appears to me that, iu these broken skulls and disjointed bones, we have...deposits? If they were the bodies of persons slain in war . . . the accidents of war do not account for the scattered state in which the bones are found, and... | |
 | J. H. Mortimer - Earthworks (Archaeology) - 1905 - 820 pages
...cannibalism existed among the Britons, in their funeral ceremonies, at least. Canon Greenwell says, " It appears to me that in these broken skulls and disjointed bones we have the results of feasts at the interments, where the slaves, captives, or others were slain and eaten. In... | |
 | William Arens - 1979 - 226 pages
...with one of the earliest recorded finds. He quotes the report of the proto-archeologist, who wrote: "It appears to me, that, in these broken skulls and disjointed bones we have the result of feasts" (in Brothwell 1961: 304). This tentative assertion, based primarily on the mere fact that the human... | |
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It appears to me, that, in these broken skulls and disjointed bones, we have the result of feasts, at the interment, where slaves, captives, or others were slain and eaten. 