Mesoamerica and its cultural areas. Credit: Wikipedia
Posted on 05/09/2015 6:08:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A pair of archeologists with Arizona State University has found evidence of different types of bone treatment among people that lived at the La Quemada archaeological site approximately 1,500 years ago in what is now modern Mexico...
Ben Nelson and Debra Martin... looked at bones from the site dating back to 500-900 C.E. and discovered the remains of those who had died or were killed were treated very differently depending on whether they were from their own people or were those of enemies. Bones found inside the compound, they noted showed signs of being treated with respect, whereas those outside were not only abused, but showed evidence of cannibalism.
During the time when the people were living there, the researchers note, the area was under stress, enduring upheaval due to rapid change -- Teotihuacan city had collapsed and a new society was under development, one that consisted of multiple smaller scale groups living across the Northern Frontier... The bones show marks indicative of cutting and were also splintered and sometimes burned -- all signs of both abuse and cannibalism. They also found skulls with holes bored in them, which seems to suggest they were hung for still living enemies to see, a means perhaps, of warding off further attacks. Other evidence of the violence that occurred was the architecture itself, fortresses meant to keep invaders at bay.
Meanwhile, bones found inside the compound showed signs of a different kind of cut marks -- shallow indentations, which generally are attributable to defleshing and desiccation, both signs of veneration of the dead...
The researchers suspect that the much of the conflict between groups in the area at the time was ethnically based, but will need to do isotopic and DNA analysis to confirm their theory.
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
Mesoamerica and its cultural areas. Credit: Wikipedia
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Worked for Steely Dan.
This can’t be true.
Central America was populated only with peaceful, nature-loving, pacifist vegetarian sun people who lived in communes of love and cooperation before the evil Europeans invaded and visited war and violence upon the bewildered innocents.
Yeah, it’s clever but it’s like setting yourself on fire. It can only be done once.
As if that hasn’t been done all over the world and throughout history.
“...whereas those outside were not only abused, but showed evidence of cannibalism.”
I didn’t realize that the Republican Establishment was around back then.
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