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Man Corn: Cannibalism and Violence in the Prehistoric American Southwest
by Christy G. Turner II; Jacqueline Turner
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 087480566X
- ISBN 13
- 9780874805666
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About This Item
University of Utah Press, 1998. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Book is clean with a square, tight binding and bright, white pages. Book and dust jacket have minor wear on the edges that is difficult to see in the scans. Book has a dog-eared page and highlighting on pages 56 and 57 and remnants of a previous owner's name on top ffep. This study of prehistoric violence, homicide, and cannibalism explodes the myth that the Anasazi and other Southwest Indians were simple, peaceful farmers. Until quite recently, Southwest prehistory studies have largely missed or ignored evidence of violent competition. Christy and Jacqueline Turner's study of prehistoric violence, homicide, and cannibalism explodes the myth that the Anasazi and other Southwest Indians were simple, peaceful farmers. Using detailed osteological analyses and other lines of evidence the Turners show that warfare, violence, and their concomitant horrors were as common in the ancient Southwest as anywhere else in the world. The special feature of this massively documented study is its multi-regional assessment of episodic human bones assemblages (scattered floor deposits or charnel pits) by taphonomic analysis, which considers what happens to bones from the time of death to the time of recovery. During the past thirty years, the authors and other analysts have identified a minimal perimortem taphonomic signature of burning, pot polishing, anvil abrasions, bone breakage, cut marks, and missing vertebrae that closely match the signatures of animal butchering and is frequently associated with additional evidence of violence. More than seventy-five archaeological sited containing several hundred individuals are carefully examined for the cannibalism signature. Because this signature has not been reported for any sites north of Mexico, other than those in the Southwest, the authors also present detailed comparisons with Mesoamerican skeletal collections where human sacrifice and cannibalism were known to have been practiced. The authors review several hypotheses for Southwest cannibalism: starvation, social pathology, and institutionalized violence and cannibalism. In the latter case, they present evidence for a potential Mexican connection and demonstrate that most of the known cannibalized series are located temporally and spatially near Chaco great houses. The book you see in the images is the actual book we have for sale. When you buy this book from us, you are helping to support a small brick and mortar family owned store. We have been curating our collection for three generations and currently have over 250,000 volumes in stock. Please feel free to call for more stock.
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- Bookseller
- Dons Book Store
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 025622
- Title
- Man Corn: Cannibalism and Violence in the Prehistoric American Southwest
- Author
- Christy G. Turner II; Jacqueline Turner
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 087480566X
- ISBN 13
- 9780874805666
- Publisher
- University of Utah Press
- Place of Publication
- Salt Lake City
- Date Published
- 1998
- Pages
- 547
- Keywords
- Archaeology American Southwest Indigenous Peoples New Mexico Arizona Colorado Utah History
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- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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