What's on the menu in Germany?... Beer, Brauts, and People?

According to a recent excavation at Herxheim in Germany people may have been on the dinner menu. There is evidence that several hundred people may have been butchered at the site in a similar way to other animals. While these initial findings may suggest cannibalism according to French anthropologist Bruno Boulestin, German researchers are skeptical. The Germans claim that the butchered bodies and the removal of the flesh could indicate a system of reburial and not cannibalism. The most convincing evidence for cannibalism, however, comes from the apparent teeth marks found on the ends of intentionally broken hand and arm bones.

I don't know about anyone else but as soon as teeth marks are confirmed on the bodies it almost has to be a case of cannibalism. While it is possible that animals, like the pets of the killers, could have caused any teeth marks after the bodies were fed to them it seems unlikely that people would go through all the effort of scalping, removing the tongue and jaw muscles, separating the ribs from the spine, and chopping a guy up so that his dog doesn't choke on all the big pieces. What it really sounds like is that someone had a barbecue and the neighbors were on the menu.But really, you can't blame the German researchers for getting their backs up about the theory that their ancestors could have been cannibals. After all, the Germans have enough skeletons in their closet as is, it would be a bit of a blow to national pride to find out that the reason there are skeletons in the closet is because they ate them.