I expect you read the paper published this week describing bowls fashioned out of skulls that had been discovered in a Late Stone Age site in Somerset. This provides the long-awaited answer to the mystery of what receptacles were used by the Cro-Magnon for their Sugar Puffs.
How better to commemorate a recently departed relation than to carve their skull into a delightful breakfast bowl? Tucking in to your cereal from her scraped out head would have provided a lovely daily reminder of dear Auntie Kate.
Cut marks in the skulls reveal how people 14,700 years ago created the bowls by removing the brain and other tissue and then skilfully shaping the bone to prevent accidental spillage of their Sugar Puffs on the cave floor.
Originally the bowl would have borne an image of the Honey Monster, or perhaps Tony the Sabre-Toothed Tiger. Extensive use of the bowl has unfortunately resulted in the original image rubbing off.
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