While he was suffering, a procession of nine fellow rebels who had been starved beforehand were led to this throne. On July 21, 1514, the captured Hungarian rebel leader György Dózsa was condemned to sit on a smouldering, heated iron throne, and forced to wear a heated iron crown and scepter (mocking his ambition to be king).Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca along with other Spanish conquistadors committed cannibalism in the aftermath of a shipwreck.In 1503, a group of Qizilbash militants ate the corpses of their enemies after taking over a fort in east Iran.During the siege of Suiyang up to 30,000 civilians were eaten by the city garrison.ġ6th–19th centuries 16th century.The Korowai people claimed to have continued practicing cannibalism into the present day, as part of an attempt to encourage tourism.The Aztec practiced cannibalism to some extent, but there is debate about how widespread the practice was and disagreement about if human flesh was a significant part of their diet.Numerous incidents of cannibalism were recorded during the drought of 1200–1201 in the Nile River region.The Wari' people practiced endocannibalism, specifically mortuary cannibalism.Island Caribs practiced ritualistic cannibalism.The Akokisa and Atakapa people of modern-day Texas practiced cannibalism.Several works by Michel de Montaigne and Jean de Léry, among others, indicated that the Tupinambá tribe practiced cannibalism.The Great Famine of 1315–1317 was marked with extreme levels of cannibalism.(As late as the early 19th century, mummies were still believed to have styptic properties against bleeding and were sold as pharmaceuticals in powdered form. The practice developed into a widespread business that flourished until the late 16th century. For a brief time in Europe, an unusual form of cannibalism occurred when thousands of Egyptian mummies preserved in bitumen were ground up and sold as medicine.Giovanni da Pian del Carpine alleged they would only do so out of necessity, but Simon of Saint-Quentin believed they would also do so for pleasure or to instill fear into their enemies. The Mongols were reported by several European chroniclers such as Matthew Paris to have engaged in cannibalism.Crusaders were reported to have practiced cannibalism during the Siege of Ma'arra.If modern humans and Neanderthals, who co-existed with each other at that time, practised cannibalism together, it is theorised this gene would have protected humans from the kuru-like diseases, but led to the Neanderthals' deaths, perhaps even their extinction. Drawing on hundreds of studies in relation to the kuru disease which is only known to spread through cannibalism, researchers conclude that the 127V gene, which is known only for resisting kuru-like diseases, evidences widespread cannibalism among recent humans. Genetic studies have revealed a "powerful episode" of natural selection concurrent with the extinction of the Neanderthals.But it has also been interpreted as a burial ritual. It has been suggested he was a victim of cannibalism.
Classical antiquity recorded numerous references to cannibalism during siege starvations. Occasionally, starving people have resorted to cannibalism for survival necessity. Historically, numerous tribal organisations have engaged in cannibalism, although very few are thought to continue the practice to this day. Accounts of human cannibalism date back as far as prehistoric times, and some anthropologists suggest that cannibalism was common in human societies as early as the Paleolithic. This is a list of incidents of cannibalism, or anthropophagy, as the consumption of human flesh or internal organs by other human beings. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.