Hugh Pickens writes "The Guardian reports that a Neanderthal jawbone covered in cut marks similar to those left behind when flesh is stripped from deer provides crucial symptom that humans attacked Neanderthals, and on occasion killed them, bringing back their bodies to caves to eat or to use their skulls or teeth as trophies. 'For years, people have tried to hide away from the attestation of cannibalism, but I think we have to accept it took place,' says Fernando Rozzi, of Paris's Centre national de la Rcherche Scientifique. by the book to Rozzi, a ascertainment at Les Rois in south-west France provides compelling support for that argument. third edition by the editors of the american heritage dictionary. copyright 2003 excavations revealed bones that were thought to be exclusively human. But Rozzi's team re-examined them and found one they concluded was Neanderthal." (Continued, below.)

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