June 14, 2011
The Curious Case of the Disappearing Anasazi
I just watched a documentary on the massive buildings at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Very detailed on the presumed astronomical phenomenae embedded in the architecture, etc, etc. Then they puzzled over why the Anasazi simply up and moved away after over four hundred years. They couldn't think of anything, except possibly a drought.
Well, hell, that's because they never mentioned the cannibalism! Hell, I thought everybody knew that.
Of course, it was narrated by Robert Redford, and contained interviews with quite a few Pueblo "historians," "paleontologists," "oral traditionalists," and other hucksters, so I knew they wouldn't go there. More evidence of those beastly barbecues than the purported cosmology they were gushing over, however. And it's not like they were able to prop up Kenniwick Man's remains and pipe the narration through his jawbone.
UPDATE: Og's comment reminded me I neglected to add my normal postscript for such an entry:
Apocalypto!
Aw ... and in grade school they taught us that these were peaceful farming people.
Posted by: PeggyU at June 15, 2011 1:37 AMI like to watch the Anthropology majors gasp when I speak with them about the history of Mexico City and the Aztec people. I tell them that Cortez did the Mexican people a favor by delivering them from their benighted, savage death-cult.
How's that Hopi-Changey thing working for the Anasazi?
La Raza. Islam. Discuss.
Posted by: Joan of Argghh! at June 15, 2011 7:17 AMApocalypto!
Posted by: og at June 15, 2011 8:18 AMThe other white meat
Posted by: Cletus Socrates at June 15, 2011 8:00 PMLMAO, thanks Cletus.
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Posted by: ytgbfkdtbx at June 28, 2011 1:44 AMThis just in ... the Anasazi are still missing ...
Posted by: PeggyU at June 28, 2011 3:20 PMThanks for the update, Peggy.
ytqbfkdtbx and I were getting a little worried.
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