Pottery Leads to Discovery of Peace-seeking Women in American Southwest

University of Missouri ^ | Mar 9, 2010 | Unknown

[decimon]

COLUMBIA, Mo. – From the time of the Crusades to the modern day, war refugees have struggled to integrate into their new communities. They are often economically impoverished and socially isolated, which results in increased conflict, systematic violence and warfare, within and between communities as the new immigrants interact with and compete with the previously established inhabitants. Now, University of Missouri researcher Todd VanPool believes pottery found throughout the North American Southwest comes from a religion of peace-seeking women in the violent, 13th-century American Southwest. These women sought to find a way to integrate newly immigrating refugees and prevent the spread of warfare that decimated communities to the north.

First discovered in 1930’s Arizona, Salado pottery created a debate among archaeologists. According to VanPool, the Salado tradition is a grassroots movement against violence. The mystery of the pottery’s origin and significance was known as “the Salado problem.” This southwestern pottery was found among three major cultural areas of the ancient southwest: the ancestral Puebloan in northern Arizona and New Mexico, the Mogollon of southern New Mexico and the Hohokam of central and southern Arizona, all with different religious traditions. Even though the pottery was found in three different cultural areas, the pottery communicated the same, specific set of religious messages. It was buried with both the elite and non-elite and painted with complex, geometric motifs and animals, such as horned serpents. Instead of celebrating local elites, the symbols in Salado pottery emphasized fertility and cooperation.

[decimon]

Tossed Salado ping.

[jessduntno]

Another “religion of peace” movement gone to pot...

[driftdiver]

I’m always amazed at how much fiction is involved with these kinds of things.

[Leo Carpathian]

Like, Salado movement predates the Tea Parties?

[AnalogReigns]

What? WARFARE amidst indigenous Americans BEFORE the evil whites came? IMPOSSIBLE!

Everyone knows it was all “dances with wolves” and a Navi-without-tails-a-la-”Avatar” paradise... </sarcasmoff>

[RegulatorCountry]

From the time of the Crusades to the modern day, war refugees have struggled to integrate into their new communities.

Ah, yes, those evil Christians. There was no refugee problem due to war, prior to war in the Holy Land. Those jingoists, they just up and attacked for no good reason. /s

Could this guy have strung together any more modern, leftist presumption applied to essentially unknown people, based upon a sketchy interpretation of animal symbols on pottery? Seems he's hit all the key narrative points.

This is made up from whole cloth.

[lack-of-trust]

Wimins Studies...

[Pecos]

Apparently the university’s Archeology Department has a new fiction wing.

[conservativeharleyguy]

"We can't figure out the real reasons that they decorated their bowls with these images, and they conveniently left us no concise clues with which to decipher them.... Cool!!! I get to call it whatever I want??? Then, my theory is....."

My GOD!!! I don't think I've ever seen a worse example of distorting apparently hard, empirical evidence to support a researcher's unfounded personal/philosophical perspective.

Well, outside of “Global Warmingism”, of course.

[eclecticEel]

The original Code Pink?

[SunkenCiv]

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