To clarify: the title is excerpted from Act 1 of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. The full quote goes: "Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile; So ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes." It's a warning against spending too much of your life in scholarly pursuits.
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Thursday, September 02, 2010
Early European Cannibalism
It seems that refuse piles produced by humans 800,000 years ago contain the remains of people who had been butchered mixed in with bones of other animal species. There is no indication of any ritual context so they conclude that, to ancient Europeans, human beings were just another game animal. Read about it here.
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