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When researchers first sifted through the jumbled bones from the Troisi\u00e8me caverne of Goyet in Belgium, they expected the usual challenges of working with 19th century excavation material: incomplete notes, mixed layers, the silent absence of field documentation. What they did not expect was a demographic pattern so strange that it strained the boundaries of chance itself.<\/p>\n

There were six individuals. Four were adults or adolescents. All four were female. The remaining two were a child and a newborn boy. Nearly every individual, except the infant, bore the unmistakable signatures of intense butchery.<\/p>\n

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Neandertal specimens from the Troisi\u00e8me caverne of Goyet included in this study. Genetic sex determinations: XX indicates female, XY indicates male. Specimens belonging to the same individual are shaded in the same colour.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Cut marks hemmed clavicles and long bones. Fresh-bone fractures formed starbursts along the shafts. Tibias and femora, the calorie-rich engines of prehistoric meat economies, were smashed open as if they were no different from hunted horse or reindeer. Several bone fragments had even been repurposed as tools.<\/p>\n

The statistical probability that this grouping happened by accident is nearly zero, according to the study\u2019s authors.<\/p>\n

What emerged<\/span> from this cave was not an ordinary Neanderthal assemblage. It was a story about selection. And perhaps about fear.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe demographic skew alone hints at purposeful targeting, not random mortality,\u201d says Dr. Elena Rossi, a paleoanthropologist at Cambridge University. \u201cIt takes the case out of the realm of ecological happenstance and into the realm of human decision making.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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