The Truth About Cannibalism and Ritualistic Defleshing

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The Great Anasazi Cannibal Debate began back in the 1970s. Christie Turner examined evidence of bones left at 12 sites in the Four Corners region, dating between 80, 980 and 14,700 years ago. The team concludes that there is very little dispute that this is a site where cannibalism was practiced. It reminds me of a novel I read from Stephen King and Peter Straub called Black House.

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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