article_snippet.sent: Neanderthals may have eaten recently deceased friends and family either for food or in bizarre funeral rituals.
article_snippet.sent: Similar marks have been seen at other Neanderthal sites showing how our ancestors cut and fractured the bones of our ancestors dead relatives.
article_snippet.sent: Neanderthals may have eaten deceased friends and family either for food or in bizarre funeral rituals.
article_snippet.sent: When compared to the remains of other Neanderthals and modern humans, scientists found bone marks made shortly after death.
article_snippet.sent: María Dolores Garralda, professor at the Complutense University of Madrid, and lead authors told SINC: 'Some Neanderthal groups cut and tore apart child or adult corpses shortly after death using lytic instruments'
article_snippet.sent: María Dolores Garralda, professor at the Complutense University of Madrid, and lead authors told SINC: 'Some Neanderthal groups cut and tore apart child or adult corpses shortly after death using lytic instruments.'
article_snippet.sent: Similar marks have been seen at other Neanderthal sites showing how our ancestors cut and fractured the bones of our ancestors dead relatives .
highlights_snippet.sent: Scientists say Neanderthal groups pulled apart bones on dead bodies .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: It is not yet known whether this was done for food or in a funeral ritual .