Because human and animal remains were tossed away together, the researchers speculate that cannibalism had no special ritual role linked to religious beliefs. Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk...
Maybe the actual act of ingesting the children was significant in itself. I can certainly see a certain logic in a child that has met with an untimely fate be eaten by it's own tribe, what once came from the mother goes back to the mother and all that jazz.
