Topic ID #13030 - posted 7/24/2011 12:11 PM
Jennifer Palmer
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Mexican Anthropologists Find Evidence of Cannibalistic Tribe
Jennifer Palmer
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Mexican Anthropologists Find Evidence of Cannibalistic Tribe
Published July 22, 2011
Mexico City – A group of Mexican anthropologists have announced their discovery through skeletal studies that the early Xixime Indians, who around 1450 inhabited a series of dwellings built inside caves, ate human flesh during a ritual associated with war and the crop cycle.
In a four-year study of 40 human bones found inside Maguey Cave on the Sierra de Durango mountains in northern Mexico, the researchers observed that at least 80 percent of the remains "had cut marks and signs of having been boiled," the National Institute of Anthropology and History, or INAH, said in a communique.
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Published July 22, 2011
Mexico City – A group of Mexican anthropologists have announced their discovery through skeletal studies that the early Xixime Indians, who around 1450 inhabited a series of dwellings built inside caves, ate human flesh during a ritual associated with war and the crop cycle.
In a four-year study of 40 human bones found inside Maguey Cave on the Sierra de Durango mountains in northern Mexico, the researchers observed that at least 80 percent of the remains "had cut marks and signs of having been boiled," the National Institute of Anthropology and History, or INAH, said in a communique.
Read more here.
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