At 08:03 1999-10-02 EDT, S.B. Feldman wrote:
>I wondered about whether or not this cannibalism may have been related in one
>or more ways to the subsequent extinction of this group.

I think the founds are too old for that, 100 - 150 kya. Extinktion was
much later. Other founds point to Neandertal religiousity, so they had
cultures. And cultures can go wrong or what seems weird: the Yanomama
eat yhe ashes of their dead, and something similar can be the reason
for the founds, a way to handle the sorrow of relatives dead by
accident, violence or wild animals.

- Hans