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Article: Eating Them Out of House and Home.(investigation into cannibalistic practices of the Anasazi Indians)
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- Insight on the News
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- August 2, 1999
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Archaelogists are debating evidence that pueblo-dwelling American Indians in the Southwest practiced cannibalism for centuries -- until they mysteriously disappeared.
One of history's most perplexing riddles involves the disappearance of the cliff-dwelling Anasazi Indians, known popularly as a remarkably advanced, mystical, peaceful and agrarian culture that once inhabited the parched, desolate, vast Four Corners region of present Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico in the late pre-Columbian era. The stark and stunning sandstone pueblos they abandoned around the 14th century are among America's great wonders, attracting hordes of tourists to Mesa Verde, Chaco ...