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Herxheim, a small hamlet in southern Germany. In 2009, an international team of archaeologists excavates a 7,000-year-old mass grave of up to 1,000 Stone Age men, women, children and even unborn foetuses. Probably they were butchered, then cooked and cannibalised in sacrificial rites. But did this ancient mass murder really take place? And is it true that human sacrifice and cannibalism are parts of the history of European civilisation? „Stone Age Cannibals“ is looking for answers...