Did Cannibalism Kill Anasazi Civilization?

The mainstream theory is that in the Anasazi abandoned their region because of resource depletion (especially their critical need for wood for construction, heating and food preparation, an extended drought. Now there is strong evidence that, at lest in part, this exodus had a darker side.


At sites dating between about A.D. 900 and 1250, spread across the Four Corners region of the Southwest, there are more than thirty archaeological sites in which evidence clearly shows the brutalization human remains. Researcher and writer Jacquline Turner, and others, paint a picture in which humans were systematically butchered and eaten, their remains tossed casually aside.

Did cannibalism kill Anasazi civilization?

In some Anasazi sites human bones are found chopped-up in ways indicating cannibalism was routinely practiced. Human bones, such as in the center of the photo above, were butchered and throw away with the trash.

Cannibals of the Canyon