Evidence of Hobbling, Torture Discovered at Ancient Massacre Site in Colorado

[bluedigger]

Evidence of Hobbling, Torture Discovered at Ancient Massacre Site in Colorado

The site of a gruesome massacre some 1,200 years ago in southwestern Colorado is yielding new evidence of the severity, and the grisly intensity, of the violence that took place there.

First excavated in 2005 near the town of Durango, the site known as Sacred Ridge was in some ways a typical early Pueblo settlement, a collection of pithouses situated not far from similar communities, dated to around the year 800.

But digs at Sacred Ridge soon revealed a scene of visceral conflict that archaeologists are still trying to piece together.

Two of the settlement’s pithouses, it turned out, were filled with nearly 15,000 fragments of human bone — having been intentionally crushed to pieces — along with ceramic vessels and stone tools that retained residues of human blood and muscle tissue.

http://westerndigs.org/evidence-of-hobbling-torture-discovered-at-ancient-massacre-site-in-colorado/

Well, at least they have no evidence for cannibalism this time. Much more at the link. Pretty interesting.

[theHandpuppet]

1. How gruesome

I guess I always underestimate man's capacity for cruelty.