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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yikes...I see it now... thanks.
This is just the Hutu’s and Tutsi’s ala America.
I think it was just a few centuries later that some of the Anasazi built the cliff dwellings that were nearly inaccessible. Perhaps this is why.
Where are the demands for reparations?
Where are the demands for reparations?
206 Bones in the human body, if I remember correctly, would equal 71 people.
Redheaded Indians?
I probably already mentioned this to you in years gone by. but i remember reading something about russian explorers finding a tribe of redheads in alaska. I have been unable to re-find this that I read years ago. But I remember the russians claimed these people had catapults and swords and attacked their ships with them. They wouldn’t reason or talk. every last one of them fought to the death. children included.
They probable ate the best parts, and the cooking softened the bone and that disintegrated later. I’m guessing it was a complete village ~ not a modern village, but enough so they could defend their cornfields.
I thought they were peaceful and in harmony...
not surprised..tribes had many battles with each other.
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There are several mass slaughter and cannibalism sites in the Southwest from this time frame. Apparently the whole area was in a generalized nightmarish upheaval, usually attributed to drought triggers, and sharply diminished resources on a subsistence level population.
http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep00/billman090600.htm
http://www.prestonchild.com/books/thunderhead/art36,132
http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/upcat&CISOPTR=1493&CISOBOX=1&REC=6
The abrupt termination of the Gallina civilization is a very interesting and poignant chapter in C. W. Ceram’s (Kurt Wilhelm Marek) “The First Americans”. There, the population was massacred in their defensive towers, but the bodies were left where they fell. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallina
Population movements from these areas may have overwhelmed and destroyed the Toltec civilization, and elements of these displaced peoples may have been ancestral to the Aztecs. Since these events are locally prehistoric, it is difficult to piece together much more than an impression, and the events are also woven into orally transmitted legend, which further complicates things without independent corroboration. These events were contemporary with the Viking age, the rise of Islam, and the anarchic collapse of the Tang dynasty in China.
A good time to not be around.
Redheaded Indians?
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Chichimecas. The red was applied to the hair. The Spaniards eventually bought peace from the ones they encountered and could not subdue.
I climbed the volcano La Malinche in southern Mexico. It’s about 14,500 feet. Must be a connection.
Their other collaborations are also very good, particularly the Pendergast series.
"The name "Guachichile" that the Mexicans gave to these Indians meant "heads painted of red," a reference to the red dye that they used to pain their bodies, faces and hair. According to John R. Swanton, the author of "The Indian Tribes of North America," (Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 145-1953) classified the Guachichile tribes as part of the Uto-Aztecan linguistic family. This would make them linguistic cousins to the Aztecs.
"The oldest human remains found in the Americas were recently "discovered" in the storeroom of Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology. Found in central Mexico in 1959, the five skulls were radiocarbon dated by a team of researchers from the United Kingdom and Mexico and found to be 13,000 years old. They pre-date the Clovis culture by a couple thousand years, adding to the growing evidence against the Clovis-first model for the first peopling of the Americas."
"Of additional significance is the shape of the skulls, which are described as long and narrow, very unlike those of modern Native Americans."
Humans being Humans...(Libs never get this)
Well Cortez gave a house to Malinche as his concubine, as well as the children he had through her as well. The mountain was probably named by Cortez himself, for all I know.
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