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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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, call your office!
Not possible. Liberals say this continent was peaceful and tranquil until the white man showed up and killed everybody.
Humans are a violent species. Genocide is a common theme all over the planet, both in the past, and into the modern times.
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not surprised..tribes had many battles with each other.
White Europeans did this!
Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld: it had to be.
You know, it’s not just humans. My dog kills lizards just for the fun of it. She never eats them.
I’ve heard of cats eating the cadavers of their lonely, dead owners, too.
Hey, they couldn’t help it. They were just channeling the white man from the future.
14,000 fragments ~ just a few hundred all told.
If there was any evidence of bad blood amongst indigenous Americans, it was presented back in the days of Hernan Cortez, and his diplomatic manipulation in the conquest of Mexico. The Aztecs and Montezuma had many enemies, and Cortez recruited a known enemy of Montezuma, Malinche, as his translator and his concubine. The Spanish wrote loads of how bad the Aztecs were for human sacrifice, which the Aztecs obtained from prisoners of war from rival tribes.
People can be nice as individuals, but when forced to live with a savage group, it’s hard not to become a savage.
See muslim mobs as a good modern example.
This was not the only genecide of indiginous American people by other indiginous American people. The Neuter Indians of the Niagara region of New York were exterminated by tribes still there now.
The Aztecs supposedly sacrificed prisoners of war at the rate of tens of thousands by the time the Spanish arrived in Mexico.
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