Today's (Feb 18 2011) Daily Mail carried an article about findings of skull 'cups' suggesting that the tribes preceding the Brits' ancestors resorted to cannibalism.
Cannibalism happened on an island in Indonesia, too, cannibals alive in last century, 1900s, in places such as Sarawak.
I asked our local guide, 'Did you ever meet a cannibal?'
He looked at me with shock, as if I'd asked a silly question, and replied, 'Of course. My grandfather was one.'
The British rulers stamped out the practice by the punishment of destroying longhouses, a big house for the entire group.
It's in all the guidebooks and history books - and local tourist guides will tell you.
In times and places of famine, also. For example, the Donner party in the USA. WWII Belsen where Anne Frank died.
See Wiki for links.
Maybe the UK scientists have proof but sensibly don't tell us.
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