A mystery from almost a million years ago. Researchers' fresh discovery sheds fresh light on cannibalism

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Another 24 bones of Homo antecessor – hominids from 850,000 years ago, bearing traces of cannibalism, were found by archaeologists during another circular of excavations in the Sierra de Atapuerca in the state of Burgos in Spain. any of the fossils represent adults, which is simply a uncommon find.