Prehistoric Cannibalism?! - Ep 294

On today’s show we talk about three recent news stories including prehistoric cannibalism in Poland, a WWI era German soldier buried in a 2000 year old Roman villa, and a cutting edge new technology where the mitochondrial DNA of soil is analyzed in Spain.
Links
• Brain-eating cannibalistic community lived in Poland cave 18,000 years ago, bones show (miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/articl…)
• Archaeologists discover Roman villa in France — then unearth soldier’s wedding ring (miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/articl…)
• New DNA research examines predecessors of Red Lady of El Mirón (phys.org/news/2025-02-dna-predecessors-red-lad…)
Transcripts
• For rough transcripts head over to archpodnet.com/archaeology/294
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