The C-Wing Cannibalism of the Anasazi

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In 2001, there was an entire symposium about the C-word cannibalism. Anthropologists were going to slug it out over whether or not the Anasazi were practicing cannibalism. But far from being outraged at this suggestion that their distant ancestors practice cannibalism, they kind of celebrate it. The modern day Pueblo Indians do not believe that it is part of their history.

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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