The savagery in the pre-Colombian American Southwest would make Conan the Barbarian blink. Genocide plus cannibalism at several points.
Yeah, they’d have run him right out of town, or maybe just cut him into chutney on some stone temple.
Yup. Visited Mesa Verde about 25 years ago, and had to suffer through PC rangers on the tour trying to describe the quite obviously defensive cliff dwellings as early attempts at passive solar building.
Really. As if anyone would choose to live in such a wildly inconvenient spot if they didn’t have a darn good reason.
If the neighbors were getting into cannibalism and perhaps human sacrifice, I’d want to fort up, too.