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Cannibalism was practiced among prehistoric human beings, and it lingered into the 19th century in some isolated South Pacific cultures, notably in Fiji. But today the Korowai are among the very few tribes believed to eat human flesh. They live about 100 miles inland from the Arafura Sea, which is where Michael Rockefeller, a son of then-New York governor Nelson Rockefeller, disappeared in 1961 while collecting artifacts from another Papuan tribe; his body was never found. Most Korowai still live with little knowledge of the world beyond their homelands and frequently feud with one another. Some are said to kill and eat male witches they call khakhua.
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The body parts, he says, were individually wrapped in banana leaves and distributed among the clan members. "But I kept the head because it belongs to the family that killed the khakhua," he says. "We cook the flesh like we cook pig, placing palm leaves over the wrapped meat together with burning hot river rocks to make steam."
As we walk back to our hut, Kembaren confides that "years ago, when I was making friends with the Korowai, a man here at Yafufla told me I'd have to eat human flesh if they were to trust me. He gave me a chunk," he says. "It was a bit tough but tasted good."
The porters string all but one of the tarpaulins over our supplies. Our shelter for the night is four poles set in a square about four yards apart and topped by a tarp with open sides. Soon after midnight a downpour drenches us. The wind sends my teeth chattering, and I sit disconsolately hugging my knees. Seeing me shivering, Boas pulls my body against his for warmth. As I drift off, deeply fatigued, I have the strangest thought: this is the first time I've ever slept with a cannibal.
In the afternoon I go with the clan to the sago palm fields to harvest their staple food. Two men hack down a sago palm, each with a hand ax made from a fist-size chunk of hard, dark stone sharpened at one end and lashed with vine to a slim wooden handle. The men then pummel the sago pith to a pulp, which the women sluice with water to produce a dough they mold into bite-size pieces and grill.
The strongest evidence for meat and marrow eating are butchery marks found on bones. Slicing meat off a bone with a sharp-edged tool can leave cut marks (Figure 1). Pounding a bone with a large stone to break it open and extract the marrow inside can leave percussion marks. Cut and percussion marks, which together are called butchery marks, may be the result of skinning, disarticulation, and bone breakage for dietary and non-dietary reasons (Blumenschine & Pobiner 2006). Scientists began to recognize these butchery marks on Early Stone Age fossil assemblages in the 1980s (e.g., Bunn 1981; Potts & Shipman 1981; Blumenschine & Selvaggio 1988). Experimental and prehistoric evidence for human chewing on bones has only recently begun to be explored (e.g., Landt 2007; Delaney-Rivera et al. 2009; Fernandez-Jalvo and Andrews 2011; Pickering et al. 2013).Figure 1(a) 1.5 million-year-old fossil antelope lower leg bone (metapodial) from Koobi Fora, Kenya, bearing cut marks; (b) close-up of these cutmarks. 2013 Nature Education Courtesy of Briana Pobiner. All rights reserved.
There are otherwise only a few records of group cannibalism in which several smaller individuals kill and together consume one larger conspecific. This has been seen in social Hymenoptera and Isoptera (Polis 1981) and in some species where the mother serves as a food source for its offspring (Evans et al. 1995). Cases where several adults kill and consume an infant together have also been recorded in social mammals. This occurs in lions, for example, when a group of new males acquires another male's harem (Bertram 1975). It also occurs in chimpanzees where male groups commonly attack conspecifics (Arcadi & Wrangham 1999; Mitani et al. 2002; Wilson et al. 2004). Humans have also had the required social structure and social practices that promote disease spread by cannibalism. Historically, members of families or a village often shared captured individuals in ritualized meals (Volhard 1968; Sahlins 1983; Wendt 1989), and the group size of individuals sharing one victim was often very large. Additionally, some human societies practiced cannibalism across groups and necrophagy within the group (Volhard 1968; Conklin 2001). This seems to have been the case for the Fore people of Papua New Guinea, in which both intraspecific necrophagy and cross-group cannibalism were common (Lindenbaum 1979; Rumsey 1999). Thus, in the case of Kuru, necrophagy could maintain and spread the disease within a village, while cross-group cannibalism could be the mechanism that promoted the disease spread on a larger meta-population scale. Cannibalism in humans has been a common and widespread practice that dates back at least to the Neanderthals (Defleur et al. 1999; Marlar et al. 2000). Several authors have argued that cannibalism has been a part of the natural ecology of human societies owing to the substantial nutritional gain (Darnstreich & Moren 1974).
Our results suggest that the occurrence of a disease such as Kuru in humans is most probably the result of the frequent occurrence of group cannibalism and/or group necrophagy. Additionally, the persistence of Kuru into modern times may in part be explained by the pathogenic agent's resilience to cooking, although, in many of the cannibalistic rituals, raw human flesh was often consumed (Lindenbaum 1979). Because cannibalism is no longer a regular feature of human populations, it is not possible to assess the degree to which other diseases may have had this transmission mode. However, it has been speculated that the transmission and establishment of tapeworms in humans may have been aided by cannibalism (Hoberg et al. 2001), and it is quite conceivable that a number of blood-borne infections may have been regularly transmitted in the same way.
The site goes on to say, however, that pigs cannot chew the larger bones of the human body, but that they will break them into smaller bits to make them more manageable. Human hair and teeth, on the other hand (or hoof), are not digestible to hogs and will get left behind.
The Aztecs rarely ate, or sacrificed, one another. For a few rituals, they chose victims from their own number, but these required special signs of supernatural selection and such individuals were difficult to find. For example, they sacrificed children in the springtime during times of drought, but only if those youngsters had two cowlicks. Instead, the intended victim was usually a captive or slave taken in battle or purchased for the occasion. In the former instance, a brave warrior subdued a prisoner and returned with him to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, where he sometimes fed and housed his captive until the time of sacrifice. The purchase of an appropriate human offering required a sizeable outlay of resources that ordinary farmers, fishermen, or small merchants could not hope to amass.
The Aztecs considered the human body to be equivalent to corn. Modern speakers of Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, still assert that maize is their blood, or they philosophically note that they eat the earth (and its products), and then the earth eats them. This is no fanciful idea; it is based on the observation that corn was (and remains) the adult dietary staple. The pre-Columbian peoples ground it into meal to drink as atole, and often flavored it with fruit or honey. They ate cornmeal as tamales and probably as tortillas. They added honey, seeds, and juices, and formed it into small figurines, cakes, S shapes, miniature objects, and human body parts. They consumed it at least once a day. Of what other substance could the human body be made, except edible maize?
To eat a man or woman was to take flesh composed of corn, which, in turn, captured and contained the radiant heat of the sun. In any source of heat, the Aztecs detected a basic life force in the universe, called tonally. The hearth fire, flaming lava flows, a thick blanket or cloak, sunlight, and living bodies generated it. The Aztecs said that a pair of aged gods, who lived in the heavens, took a fire drill, and twirled the upright stick in the chest of an unborn child. Thus was the vital heat ignited. Conversely, the dead were cold to the touch and lacked any life force. At the beginning of all things, the gods gave their own life force to the sun, so that eating a human being was tantamount to consuming the tonally of the gods, which sustained the sun that gave heat to the corn.
The emperor, nobles, and high-ranking soldiers were the most consistent consumers at cannibalistic rites. Occasional guests included warriors or merchants, and especially the men who provided the human sacrifice, and their families. In public, the emperor dressed splendidly in intricately woven clothing, magnificent jewelry in precious stones and gold, and iridescent quetzal feathers as evidence of his strong tonally. Nobles, the Aztecs believed, had tonally different from that of ordinary men and women. They, too, were granted special, rich clothing, as were warriors who had proven the strength of vital powers through their bravery and survival of many battles. Only those who already possessed great tonally could expect to receive additional life force. Their vital powers placed them between the average human being and the spirits, and like the gods, they were fortified with the tonally of others.
On one level, human flesh was part of a natural cycle. The sun gave warmth, and the corn sealed its energy in juicy kernels. Then people ate maize and turned it into flesh. In exchange, the Aztecs, common and noble, often offered their blood (which they believed carried tonalli) to the gods, to replace the life force that the deities originally gave to the sun and to replace the life force the sun showered onto the earth.
There is much debate concerning which insects can and cannot kill people. We have all overheard arguments between people regarding this subject. It is not uncommon for some people to make dubious claims about insects that eat human flesh. We all know that flesh-eating insects exist in the movies, but what about in real life? Of course, there exists many insect species that consume rotting flesh. Many people have developed a macabre interest in the bugs that consume human corpses buried in the ground, but are there any insect species that enjoy consuming the flesh of living humans or animals? Many insects, such as maggots and dermestes beetles, regularly consume rotting flesh, and a few insect species, such as botflies and army ants, are capable of eating through human tissue. 041b061a72