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Title: Genocide Wiped Out Native American Population
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Discovery News
URL Source: http://news.discovery.com/archaeolo ... mericans-ethnic-cleansing.html
Published: Sep 21, 2010
Author: Jennifer Viegas
Post Date: 2010-09-21 04:28:33 by Hondo68
Keywords: Sacred Ridge, Durango, Colo., different ethnic group
Views: 13928
Comments: 20
THE GIST Crushed leg bones, battered skulls and other mutilated human remains are likely all that's left of a Native American population destroyed by genocide that took place circa 800 A.D., suggests a new study. The paper, accepted for publication in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, describes the single largest deposit to date of mutilated and processed human remains in the American Southwest. The entire assemblage comprises 14,882 human skeletal fragments, as well as the mutilated remains of dogs and other animals killed at the massacre site -- Sacred Ridge, southwest of Durango, Colo. Based on the archaeological findings, which include two-headed axes that tested positive for human blood, co-authors Jason Chuipka and James Potter believe the genocide occurred as a result of conflict between different Anasazi Ancestral Puebloan ethnic groups. "It was entirely an inside job," Chuipka, an archaeologist with Woods Canyon Archaeological Consultants, told Discovery News. "The type of event at Sacred Ridge is on the far end of the conflict spectrum where social relations completely melt down," he added, mentioning that the Sacred Ridge "occupants were targeted to take the blame." Chuipka and Potter analyzed objects excavated at Sacred Ridge, which was a multiple habitation site of 22 pit structures, some of which may have operated as communal ritual facilities for a population that extended beyond the immediate site inhabitants. This suggests the residents at one point exerted some social control in the area. The unearthed bones and artifacts indicate that when the violence took place, men, women and children were tortured, disemboweled, killed and often hacked to bits. In some cases, heads, hands and feet appear to have been removed as trophies for the killers. The attackers then removed belongings out of the structures and set the roofs on fire. "I think that the major event was preceded by social stress within the community that may have been exacerbated by a period of drought," Chuipka said. "The scale of the mutilations suggests that it was planned and organized in the preceding days or weeks, and that the violence took place in a relatively short period of time -- a few days." "All evidence points to a rapid event, which is only possible with coordination and complicity within the community," he added. The researchers ruled out other possible explanations, such as starvation cannibalism, traditional preparation of the deceased, and even individuals targeted for practicing witchcraft. Cannibalism, for example, usually involves bone marrow processing. Witch roundups tend to affect a relatively small number of victims. In this case, a large group of people was dispatched at one time. For a separate study, John McClelland, lab manager of osteology at Arizona State Museum, analyzed teeth from human remains within the Ridges Basin region, including Sacred Ridge. He found that the population at Sacred Ridge in the early 800s was distinct from others in the area. "The individuals at Sacred Ridge whose remains were disarticulated and processed were not a random selection from among the overall population of Ridges Basin," McClelland determined. "In addition to the biological differences, they appear to have had a somewhat different diet and may have experienced a higher level of juvenile growth disruption." At least two other separate studies have come to similar conclusions, suggesting the genocide victims at Sacred Ridge belonged to an ethnic group that was different from that of other nearby populations. Given basic established patterns from more recent ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia, Iraq and Rwanda, the researchers think political structures that had been keeping ethnic conflict at bay probably broke down at Sacred Ridge. "What we can learn from Sacred Ridge is that archaeological sites are not simply piles of rock and refuse, but that they were occupied by people that were involved in complex webs of social relations," Chuipka said. "Sacred Ridge is a case where social relations melted down and the solution chosen was absolute and shocking."
Poster Comment: "the major event was preceded by social stress within the community political structures that had been keeping ethnic conflict at bay probably broke down" "occupants were targeted to take the blame." social relations melted down and the solution chosen was absolute"
The unearthed bones and artifacts indicate that when the violence took place, men, women and children were tortured, disemboweled, killed and often hacked to bits.
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
Hernando De Soto was a One Group Killing Machine. Just walking thru Tennessee/Arkansas spread genocidal plagues.
There were no white Europeans at Sacred Ridge. Sorry, whitey didn't do it this time.
Spaniards are not white Europeans?
They weren't at Sacred Ridge in 800 A.D. Or is this your lost tribe of Atzlan?
Sorry...read that as 1800... Carry on...
ACtually, I believe NG had a documentary about this tribe.
No problem, it's quite amusing to read the replies of lefties who read the title and then blame whitey.
I actually read the article after I had read the comments and then given the geography, assumed Spaniards. Either way...shame on me...
Wait 72 hours, they'll blame Bush and Cheney...
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
So was 911.
"Were you ever in the music or song writing business?" ... e_type_jagoff to Mudboy lol ..... AND ....... "But his decent into vile absurdity is still actually kind of sad and pitiful really" .... mad doggie
Only the Genocide of Africans was greater. And just exactly when did the slaves achieve equality. Just askin. ;}
By other Africans. It continues unabated to this day.
Can't change the past, no matter how much bitchin and whinning you do, but we have made many strides in righting the wrongs of our past. Now, get your head out of the ass of the past and see whatcha can do about Slavery and Wholesale Massacres that continues to this day in Africa, by their own leaders and people....otherwise, you're just all mouth, writen checks your ass can't cash...
"I really wanna care. I wanna feel somethin'. Let me dig a little deeper:. No, My give-a-damn's busted"~ Messina Jo Dee
Don't know the exact date, it probably varied from state to state. By the '70's equality was a thing of the past for Caucasians. Minorities were preferred due to AA. That ain't equal. It just promotes ill will amongst Americans. I would favor a Constitutional amendment prohibiting the government from inquiring what your race is. Most of us are several anyway, it's wildly inaccurate to just accept whatever is put down on a form. And what's the purpose, except to discriminate against someone?
"I would favor a Constitutional amendment prohibiting the government from inquiring what your race is. Most of us are several anyway" If you stop and think about it james, since when are any of us 'equal', even today? A man, or woman, black or white, can be anything they want to be in this country, it's up to them to want it bad enough to earn to. But if he's so g- damn lazy he thinks he deserves it to be given to him without any effort on his part, then he deserves NOTHING. Next to their accesstors, most blacks today are bone lazy, and stupid, their g-grandparents and g-parents tried to educate them because education was precious, at that time, something hard to get, but today, they're just bone lazy and stupid, the tools are there, but they aren't using them, and they have no one to blame but themselves. JMHO! Name one people outside of Europeans, who have given the black race every opportunity to better themselves and the future of their children...name those other countries!!! It's been a struggle, but we did it. No one ever said life was fair, and it damn sure isn't equal, for all of us....life is what each of us make it. Black men got the right to vote FIFTY YEARS before women, 1870 vs. 1920. The years the two amendments were passed Black men were given the right to vote in 1870 by passing the 15th Amendment. In 1874, state laws forbidding segregation were passed. The Illinois Civil Rights Act of 1885 was passed forbidding discrimination in public facilities and places such as hotels, rail roads, theatres, and restaurants. In the 1870s, African-Americans started being elected to public office for the first time ever in Tennessee. The first one was Sampson Keeble, a former slave and barber in Nashville who was elected to the state House of Representatives in 1872. By the mid 1880s there were four black men in the state house. The most notable of them was Samuel McElwee of Haywood County, who served three terms. Blacks became college professors, teachers, agriculturalist, dentists, doctors, actors, dancers, musicians, cooks, ......
"I really wanna care. I wanna feel somethin'. Let me dig a little deeper:. No, My give-a-damn's busted"~ Messina Jo Dee
Black men got the right to vote FIFTY YEARS before women, 1870 vs. 1920. The years the two amendments were passed Black men were given the right to vote in 1870 by passing the 15th Amendment. In 1874, state laws forbidding segregation were passed. The Illinois Civil Rights Act of 1885 was passed forbidding discrimination in public facilities and places such as hotels, rail roads, theatres, and restaurants. In the 1870s, African-Americans started being elected to public office for the first time ever in Tennessee. The first one was Sampson Keeble, a former slave and barber in Nashville who was elected to the state House of Representatives in 1872. By the mid 1880s there were four black men in the state house. The most notable of them was Samuel McElwee of Haywood County, who served three terms. Blacks became college professors, teachers, agriculturalist, dentists, doctors, actors, dancers, musicians, cooks, ...... African Americans didn't get anything even close to equality until the 1970's. The biggest burden wasn't law, but societal. While there were a few cases of blacks being accepted in our society, the average person was fairly racist. But America made tremendous strides in just 20 years from 1950-1970. America has got to be one of the least racist countries on earth. Maybe even the second least racist next to Canada. A lot of the European countries never dealt with race relations so their culture doesn't have a taboo about racism.
I've heard some Canadians still have issues with chinks, paki's, japs, wops, slants, zipperheads, the Dutch (of course), but they're pretty cool with darkies. Not all of them of course.
"Were you ever in the music or song writing business?" ... e_type_jagoff to Mudboy lol ..... AND ....... "But his decent into vile absurdity is still actually kind of sad and pitiful really" .... mad doggie
You can't believe that. Better... You can be anything you want to be in a Fixed Dynamic of Maximizing Resources and Intellect. Ex.: A Slave could get 'freedom' immediately. Based on the terms of that 'freedom' the Slave could then do several things. Starve to death being one. Becoming POTUS? zero opportunity.
Don't know the exact date, You don't know because we've never gotten there. The 70's, 1974, is what you're looking for, is when the Bottom 90% came the closest to achieving parity with the likes of the Koch Bros. But that's been taken care of now, with the Top 50 000 controlling a 1/3 of ALL wealth production in the US.
Can't change the past, Maybe. But you'd better recognize it for what it is. Ex, 9-11 done by cheney/SS/Norad. Or you won't go anywhere as the TimeWall Solution bears down on you. Meaning violence will accelerate as you refuse to recognize the reality and it's solution.
#2. To: mcgowanjm (#1)
Hernando De Soto was a One Group Killing Machine.
#3. To: hondo68 (#2)
There were no white Europeans at Sacred Ridge.
#4. To: war (#3)
(Edited)
Spaniards are not white Europeans?
#5. To: hondo68 (#4)
#6. To: hondo68 (#0)
#7. To: war (#5)
Sorry...
#8. To: hondo68 (#7)
#9. To: hondo68 (#7)
#10. To: hondo68 (#0)
"It was entirely an inside job," Chuipka, an archaeologist with Woods Canyon Archaeological Consultants, told Discovery News.
#11. To: hondo68 (#2)
#12. To: mcgowanjm (#11)
(Edited)
Only the Genocide of Africans was greater.
#13. To: mcgowanjm (#11)
Only the Genocide of Africans was greater.
#14. To: mcgowanjm (#11)
And just exactly when did the slaves achieve equality.
#15. To: hondo68, mcgowanjm (#14)
(Edited)
"And just exactly when did the slaves achieve equality."
#16. To: Murron (#15)
Name one people outside of Europeans, who have given the black race every opportunity to better themselves and the future of their children...name those other countries!!! It's been a struggle, but we did it. No one ever said life was fair, and it damn sure isn't equal, for all of us....life is what each of us make it.
#17. To: Rhino (#16)
#18. To: Murron (#15)
"...can be anything they want to be in this country."
#19. To: hondo68 (#14)
(Edited)
And just exactly when did the slaves achieve equality.
#20. To: Murron (#13)
Only the Genocide of Africans was greater.
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