True Story and Description of a Country of Wild, Naked, Grim, Man-eating People...

[Lummy]

A child's skull would be described as child size. A monkey's skull would be described as small.

[Lummy]

What in the $#@!?

It is not a good article, I agree.

I defy you to produce good evidence that it was ritualistic behavior because there isn't any.

[Mister D]

A child's skull would be described as child size. A monkey's skull would be described as small.

Maybe, but it would be perfectly natural and normal for someone to describe a child's skull as small.

[Chris]

A child's skull is not small. A spider monkey's skull is small.

Staden's account can be questioned and is. No one's corroborated it.

But there's other evidence a-plenty for cannibalism in the new world.

[Mister D]

It is not a good article, I agree.

I defy you to produce good evidence that it was ritualistic behavior because there isn't any.

I've already produced plenty. The ball is in your court, chief.

[Mister D]

Staden's account can be questioned and is. No one's corroborated it.

But there's other evidence a-plenty for cannibalism in the new world.

And some in the Old. The same skepticism was shown toward Roman accounts of Celtic practices but we now know the Romans were simply relating what they observed.

[Mister D]

Mind you, I have no doubt that lurid 16th Century woodcuts, for example, are...well lurid. That said, there was never any good reason to dismiss those eyewitness accounts out of hand and virtually no rational reason now in light of the evidence.

[Chris]

And some in the Old. The same skepticism was shown toward Roman accounts of Celtic practices but we now know the Romans were simply relating what they observed.

I read somewhere as late as the early 1900s cannibalism was practiced in Europe. I forget the details.

[Mister D]

I read somewhere as late as the early 1900s cannibalism was practiced in Europe. I forget the details.

I've never heard that but maybe there was some esoteric cult. That wouldn't surprise me.

[Lummy]

I've already produced plenty. The ball is in your court, chief.

You've produced pop-science for the subway ride home is what you've produced.