London - Cannibals feasted in Britain as recently as AD130, meaning the grisly practice did not die out 10,000 years ago as previously thought, archaeologists said yesterday.
A team from Bristol University digging in central England found a 2,000-yearold human thigh bone, which the diner had purposefully split in half lengthways before scooping out the bone marrow.
"It's the first really good evidence that food has been extracted from human carcasses. This practice cannot happen accidentally," Dr Mark Horton, the team leader, said.