Man Corn: Cannibalism and Violence in the Prehistoric American Southwest

摘要: Until quite recently Southwest prehistory studies have largely missed or ignored evidence of violent competition. Christy and Jacqueline Turner's study prehistoric violence, homicide, cannibalism explodes the myth that Anasazi other Indians were simple, peaceful farmers. Using detailed osteological forensic analyses, plus lines evidence, Turners show warfare, their concomitant horrors as common in ancient anywhere else world. More than seventy-five archaeological sites containing several hundred individual remains are carefully examined for signature. Because this signature has not been reported any north Mexico, those Southwest, authors also present comparisons with Mesoamerican skeletal collections where human sacrifice known to practiced. The review hypotheses cannibalism: starvation, social pathology, institutionalized violence cannibalism. In latter case, they a potential Mexican connection demonstrate most cannibalized series located temporally spatially near Chaco great houses.