Table of Contents:
1. Introduction: Studying Southwestern Cannibalism
2. Interpreting Human Bone Damage: Taphonomic, Ethnographic, and
Archaeological Evidence
3. Taphonomic Evidence for Cannibalism and Violence in the American
Southwest: Seventy-Six Sites
4. Comparative Evidence: Cannibalism and Human Body Processing in
Mexico
5. Conclusion: Explaining Southwestern Cannibalism
Appendix
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
List of Tables
References Cited
Index to Sites
General Index
Christy G. Turner II is regents' professor in the Department of Anthropology at Arizona State University. The late Jacqueline A. Turner was a ranch manager in Dragoon, Arizona.
"A fascinating theoretical glimpse into the collapse of a great
civilization."--Los Angeles Times
"A major contribution to understanding taphonomic signatures of
human violence and cannibalism and to Southwestern prehistory.
Debates over interpretation aside, the Turners' legacy of objective
reporting of the evidence will endure."--Journal of Anthropological
Research
"A remarkable achievement, a joy to read, and a sobering learning
experience. This book is one of the few that truly belong on the
shelf of every Southwestern archaeologist."--Kiva
"Presents solid research, with all the information required for
critical independent testing by other scientists. An important book
for southwestern and American archaeology. Presents significant
scientific research that cannot fail to focus the factions of the
'science wars' on archaeology, and the relative values of data and
discretion in archaeology's search for truth."--The Journal of
Arizona History
"Sure to be one of the most controversial books on Southwestern
archaeology of our generation."--American Archaeology
"The first detailed account of cannibalism and violence on a
regional scale in the prehistoric American Southwest, especially in
the Chaco Canyon area. It's a shocker."--High Country News
"The Turners make their case convincingly and methodically, but not
at the cost of producing an interesting and thought-provoking book.
The renegade anthropologists have advanced a theory that has
breathed life into a moribund debate, while producing a book
absolutely worth reading even for those outside the field."--San
Francisco Bay Guardian
"Both provocative and encyclopedic."
--Latin American Antiquity
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