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    Why was it that only the Homo sapiens reached the Neolithic Revolution?

    I have read that there were several different Homo species in prehistoric times (H. heidelbergensis, H. neanderthalensis, H. erectus, etc.). Why is it that only the Homo sapiens went from hunter-gatherer to agricultural farming in the Neolithic Revolution, and all the others died out? Maybe the...
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    Neolithic Cannibalism

    Cannibalism has been documented again and again in archaeological contexts, as part of normative human behavior. Here's a recent report (I've not looked yet at the original) from the German Neolithic: Archaeologists have found evidence of mass cannibalism at a 7,000-year-old human burial site...
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