article_snippet.sent: Stone Age farmers in Italy cut the flesh from the bones of Stone Age farmers in Italy dead before burying their dead, a recent study found.
article_snippet.sent: Researchers at the University of Cambridge discovered cut marks on 7,000 year old human remains buried in a cave in Puglia, south eastern Italy.
article_snippet.sent: These cuts and scrapes, made with stone tools, suggest the skeletons had the skeletons flesh carefully removed in rituals before being placed in the Scaloria Cave.
article_snippet.sent: Farmers from villages up to 12 miles away are thought to have brought Farmers from villages up to 12 miles away dead to the Scaloria Cave in the Tavoliere region of Italy . '
article_snippet.sent: Further analysis along the lines used to study the Scaloria Cave will help to establish whether the type of ritualistic cannibalism practiced there is a regional phenomenon, or a more widespread practice found throughout the Magdalenian world.'
article_snippet.sent: A carving of a mammoth was also found in the Scaloria Cave along with thousands of flint tools.
article_snippet.sent: In the latest study, published in the Journal of Human Evolution, the researchers used three dimensional imaging techniques to examine the human remains found in the Scaloria Cave.
article_snippet.sent: the researchers found scratches made by a stone cutting tool along with human teeth marks along the bones.
article_snippet.sent: Several skulls and other bones (above) found at the cave showing distinctive human bite marks and cuts .
article_snippet.sent: Dr Silvia Bello, who led the research at the Natural History Museum, said: 'Dr Silvia Bello, who led the research at the Natural History Museum identified a far greater degree of human modification than recorded in earlier. '
article_snippet.sent: Dr Silvia Bello, who led the research at the Natural History Museum found undoubting evidence for defleshing, disarticulation, human chewing, crushing of spongy bone, and the cracking of bones to extract marrow.'