Archaeologists Rediscover Cannibals

摘要

When Arizona State University bioarchae-ologist Christy G. Turner II first looked at the jumbled heap of bones from 30 humans in Arizona in 1967, he was convinced that he was looking at the remains of a feast. The bones of these ancient American Indians had cut marks and burns, just like animal bones that had been roasted and stripped of their flesh. "It just struck me that here was a pile of food refuse," says Turner, who proposed in American Antiquity in 1970 that these people from Polacca Wash, Arizona, had been the victims of cannibalism.