not surprised..tribes had many battles with each other.
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.