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Cannibalism in Early Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

D. R. Brothwell
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Mr Don Brothwell of the Sub-Department of Anthropology in the British Museum (Natural History) here discusses whether anthropophagy in prehistoric Britain is fact or fiction.

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Antiquity , Volume 35 , Issue 140 , December 1961, pp. 304 - 307
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1961

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