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1 online resource (487 pages) |
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Princeton Legacy Library |
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Princeton legacy library.
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Summary; Summary; Fracture; Tool Modification; Mammalian Chewing; Burning |
| Summary |
Cannibalism is one of the oldest and most emotionally charged topics in anthropological literature. Tim White's analysis of human bones from an Anasazi pueblo in southwestern Colorado, site 5MTUMR-2346, reveals that nearly thirty men, women, and children were butchered and cooked there around A.D. 1100. Their bones were fractured for marrow, and the remains discarded in several rooms of the pueblo. By comparing the human skeletal remains with those of animals used for food at other sites, the author analyzes evidence for skinning, dismembering, cooking, and fracturing to infer that cannibal |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Pueblo Indians -- Anthropometry
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Cannibalism -- Colorado -- History
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Pueblo Indians -- Antiquities.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
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Cannibalism
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Pueblo Indians -- Anthropometry
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Pueblo Indians -- Antiquities
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| SUBJECT |
Mancos Site (Colo.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91003078
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Colorado
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Colorado -- Mancos Site
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400852925 |
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1400852927 |
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