British cave yields ice-age skull cups
February 17, 2011 - 12:25 pm
LONDON -- Ice age Britons drank from human skulls and may even have eaten flesh and bone marrow, but they were far from barbarians. That's the conclusion of experts studying the oldest known examples of "skull cups," found in a cave in southwest England. The bowls look almost like works of art, ritual items laced with meaning. Look more closely, however, and it becomes clear they are made from human skulls.