More on the munchers from Chacko Canyon
Brotherly Brunch Ping.
It always seemed to me that Mesa Verde and the cliff dwellings of the Anasazi were awfully defensive for a tribe that didn’t know war ...
Clearly an issue with immigration enforcement.
They said the same thing about the Mayans too. Apparently, only white europeans were warlike.
Another ethnic cleansing of the Pueblos might have occurred had the Spaniards not arrived in the Southwest when they did. That one would have been carried out by the Athabaskan migrants called the Apaches.
Of course, that is just a theory of mine, not one that goes over well those who like to think of the arrival of the white man as a curse to all the natives.
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"The attacking group slaughtered the people on the bluff. Anthropologists, led by Thomas Emerson, found the remains of 486 people from the attack. Many of these remains had signs of torture and mutilation. These included tongues being cut out, scalping, teeth broken, heads cut off, and other forms of dismemberment."