section_path: Society and culture/In rituals
section_name: In rituals
paragraph_text: In rituals
  
  Some archaeological evidence suggests that the mourning rituals of European Neanderthals also involved the consumption of the brain.
  
  The Fore people of Papua New Guinea are known to eat human brains. In funerary rituals, those close to the dead would eat the brain of the deceased to create a sense of immortality. A prion disease called kuru has been traced to this.