.Posted on 09/20/2010 7:01:01 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A massive deposit of mutilated and processed human remains has been found in the American Southwest. The remains and other artifacts at the site, Sacred Ridge in Colorado, indicate ethnic cleansing took place there in the early ninth century. The genocide likely occurred due to conflict between different Anasazi Ancestral Puebloan ethnic groups. Crushed leg bones, battered skulls and other mutilated human remains are likely all that's left of a Native American population destroyed by genocide that took place circa 800 A.D., suggests a new study... The entire assemblage comprises 14,882 human skeletal fragments, as well as the mutilated remains of dogs and other animals killed at the massacre site -- Sacred Ridge, southwest of Durango, Colo. Based on the archaeological findings, which include two-headed axes that tested positive for human blood, co-authors Jason Chuipka and James Potter believe the genocide occurred as a result of conflict between different Anasazi Ancestral Puebloan ethnic groups... The unearthed bones and artifacts indicate that when the violence took place, men, women and children were tortured, disemboweled, killed and often hacked to bits. In some cases, heads, hands and feet appear to have been removed as trophies for the killers. The attackers then removed belongings out of the structures and set the roofs on fire... The researchers ruled out other possible explanations, such as starvation cannibalism, traditional preparation of the deceased, and even individuals targeted for practicing witchcraft. Cannibalism, for example, usually involves bone marrow processing. Witch roundups tend to affect a relatively small number of victims. In this case, a large group of people was dispatched at one time.
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Nope. White Europeans were too busy doing the same thing to each other in the Old Country.
They were a subgroup of the Chichimecs. Sort of comparable to “Ostrogoths” as a subgroup of the “Germans”.
The whole period is a bit like the ethnic stirring of the Migration Period. Of these various displaced groups, some became the Aztecs. Hard to get a fix because of the lack of contemporary written records.
One of the mummies at Gallina had red applied to her hair.
It takes a village to braise a child.
(I use the word, “mind,” with poetic license).
*wave of the hand* ‘These are not the Nephi’s you’re looking for. Move along.’
Gee the indians didn’t all live in peace with each other? I thought only evil white people killed them and they were all such noble peoples. It sure is a lot easier to want peace when you finally go up against people that continually are able to kick your ass.
And now that the Catholic church has lost its power in Mexico, the natives are reverting back.
What is “juvenile growth disruption”?
When was Mexico civilized and peaceful?
How did the DNA testing turn out on those old skulls?
ROTFL!
BTW, using the words "liberal" and "mind" together in such a statement could be grounds to have your license revoked.
lol
thanks for such an interesting reply..
All the more reason to try a real mission to the people in Mexico, it won’t be easy, and it will be hard to show them the light of Christ, but someone has to be brave enough to do it.
.Thanks for the info.
End of an era BkMrk.
I think the research at this site has been in progress for a while. I included it on a list of sites to visit and learned it is closed to all but selected researchers. If memory serves,it is quite large and will take a long time to be excavated and studied.
I've not read anything about them since this article.
Probably a period when kids stopped growing for a while due to famine.
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