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bucolic_frolic

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3. They were hungry

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sun Feb 22, 2026, 08:07 PM

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Shouldn't surprise in a world of scarcity. Or perhaps it was a religious ritual, consumption of the dead to honor them in some way. Archaeology makes a lot of assumptions.

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