Turner C G
Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, Tempe 85287-2402.
Am J Phys Anthropol. 1993 Aug;91(4):421-39. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.1330910403.
A charnel pit that contained the disarticulated and intentionally damaged remains of eight incomplete adult and subadult Anasazi skeletons was found and excavated in 1926 by F.H.H. Roberts, Jr., at an AD 900 ruin he named Small House, located in Chaco Canyon, northwestern New Mexico. Damage includes extensive perimortem cranial and postcranial bone breakage, cut marks, anvil-hammerstone abrasions, burning, many missing vertebrae, and fragment end-polishing. Together, these six types of perimortem damage are believed to be the taphonomic signature of prehistoric Anasazi cannibalism. The possible cause of the Small House episode is discussed within the framework of two explanatory models--random social pathology and institutionalized social control by violent means.
1926年，小F.H.H. 罗伯茨在新墨西哥州西北部查科峡谷一处他命名为“小房子”的公元900年遗迹中发现并挖掘出一个乱葬坑，里面有八具不完整的成年和亚成年阿纳萨齐人骨骼，这些骨骼已被肢解且有故意损坏的痕迹。损伤包括大量濒死期颅骨和颅后骨骨折、切割痕迹、砧锤石磨损、焚烧、许多椎骨缺失以及碎片末端打磨。这六种濒死期损伤类型合在一起，被认为是史前阿纳萨齐人食人行为的埋藏学特征。本文在两种解释模型——随机社会病理学和暴力手段制度化社会控制的框架内，讨论了“小房子”事件的可能原因。
