[SunkenCiv]

Adobe architecture at Paquimé

Sedig et al. 2024, © Antiquity Publications Ltd.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

The data suggests his parents weren't as closely related as siblings but were more closely related than first cousins

I gotta ask. What's the in between here?!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

An elite family is now thought to have used the sacrifice to consolidate and legitimize their social standing.

Or to keep the gods from visiting destruction on the area because of their incest?

Oh no, they killed their healthy child in a ritual sacrifice to show off for the neighbors. That makes SO much more sense.

[Texan5]

One of my cousins was married to an archaeologist-in the early 1980’s, he was in charge of one of the digs at Casas Grandes, so my husband and got hired on his crew on our vaca-to dig/sift/bag and document literally every bit of trash, etc. It was a wonderful experience to hold a part of the far past-and maybe my native ancestry literally in your hands.

Casas Grandes was sacked in a tribal war in the early 1300’s and the survivors took off to the Sierra Madre area-the burn marks on the buildings and livestock pens, scattered bones, etc were easy to see-it was obviously brutal.

The whole place is spooky as hell-especially the House of the Well (which is what it is-a building with a big well inside)-there is no amount of money that would keep me there after dark-there are shadows, rustling noises, and that feeling of being watched. But if I had the chance to go on a dig there again, I probably would...

[subterfuge]

I don’t take hints. I’m a dude.

[blueunicorn6]

Impossible.

They were nice people who collected flowers and played drums and did drugs.

Kind of early hippies.

[imabadboy99]

all cultures are equal, folks!