Anthropologists have long been baffled by the mysterious disapearance of the Neanderthals about 30,000 years ago. But one expert thinks he has the answer - we ate them.

Reported in the Journal of Anthropological Sciences, the conclusion is based on markings found on a Neanderthal jawbone found in Les Rois, in south-west France. Cuts on the bone look remarkably similar to those found on deer and other animals butchered by humans.

"Neanderthals met a violent end at our hands and in some cases we ate them," said Fernando Rozzi, of Paris's Centre National de la Récherche Scientifique.
TG Daily - Humans ate the Neanderthals into extinction