Archaeologists Thought These Cannibalistic Ancient Humans Ate Children. They Were Only Half Right.

You may be familiar with some of humanity’s early relatives, like Homo erectus or Neanderthals. One you might not be familiar with, but whose name is a little too on-the-nose, is Homo antecessor, one of the oldest known human relatives in Europe. Fossil evidence has long suggested these ancient ancestors of ours were cannibals who…