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Article: 8: Dying for dinner?(archaeolgist finds possible proof of cannibalism)(Brief Article)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- July 24, 2000
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'Holy smokes, I'm looking at a feast." That's what anthropologist Christy Turner thought when he opened a cardboard box of skeletal remains at the Museum of Northern Arizona 30 years ago and found over a thousand broken and burned bones. They looked like butchered and cooked animal remains. But the Arizona State professor knew the bones belonged to humans.
Turner believes the battered bones hold the answer to a puzzle that has long preoccupied archaeologists: Why did the Anasazi start building massive stone pueblos around A.D. 900 at Chaco Canyon in New Mexico-- structures that aligned with the sun, the moon, and each other--then abandon them 250 years later?
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