The History of Anasazism

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Bones found in Gough's Cave were thought to have been cannibalized by Anasazi people. The descendants of the Anasazi did not want to see their ancestors as practicing cannibalism. Some of those people have been genetically linked to bones that have been discovered in Cheddar, England.

We look into the evidence from primatology and archaeology to find the roots of human cannibalism in nature or nurture. Along the way we find shadows our own dual nature between sexy hippy bonobos and hawkish war chimps; learn how homo sapiens slept with their food, visit a stone age cave of nightmares in Britain; and join the debate over what seems to have been a short-lived fad for eating humans among the Ancestral Pueblo.

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