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status with a thin benchij nd ordered it to pay Universal
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p the list. rroughly $118 million.
' U.S. District Judge Jed S.
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Rakoff said he could have
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m the ‘98 squad. er CD but chose a consider-
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Brandon Spowl, a second-year mechanical en
gineering graduate student, tightens hydraulic
hoses on a machine used to test gas seals at
the turbomachinery laboratory Wednesday.
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fancient people m the American Southwest. Here is a look at how the
felling where evionce was found may have looked In 1150 A.D.
tcavatmg the ruin,investigators found dues to reconstruct the scene.
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entraice and chimney.
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sealed, recesed Into
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Stone deflector kept
draft from scattering fire
Grain was ground
a partitoned area.
tearthing cues
e site was abandoned almost immediately after the cannibalism
jurred Investjators theorize that, in a time of severe drought, marauders
ty have terrdzed and eaten the farming families living there.
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ion left intact. In the hearth, tested
cause tlmbei positive for human
scarce, root myoglobin, a protein that
re typically carries oxygen from the
imantled whe bloodstream into muscle
felling was cells,
andoned.
Excavation site
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Valuable tools and
ornamental objects
were left behind.
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been processed, as If
for food preparation.
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blood. A few years ago, anthropolo
gists in the American Southwest un
covered the grisly remains of what
appeared to be an ancient
cannibal feast, but they
lacked the biological proof.
Laboratory tests on some <■
of the artifacts, including a
piece of human excrement,
have revealed traces of a hu- *
man protein that scientists
say is the first direct evi
dence of cannibalism among
the Anasazi, whose empire
stretched irvto present-day
Colorado, Arizona, New
Mexico and Utah.
“This proves they put the
meat in their mouths,” said
Richard Marlar, a molecular
biologist at the University of
Colorado Health Sciences
Center in Denver who devel
oped the biochemical tests to
detect the protein. “If you
didn't eat human beings, this
protein would not show up.”
The excavation site, con
sisting of three collapsed pit
dwellings nicknamed Cow
boy Wash near Dolores, Colo.,
was occupied about 1150A.D.
It was abandoned after seven
people were butchered there.
The findings were pub
lished in Thursday’s issue of
the journal Nature.
J. Gilbert, J. Jurgenaen/AP
Other anthropologists said the
protein evidence is convincing. It
does not explain exactly who com
mitted the cannibalism or why.
Nor does it demonstrate that the
Anasazi commonly ate their own,
whether for nourishment or in a re
ligious ritual.
“I doubt it was a routine thing at
all in the culture of the early pueblo
people, any more than it was routine
in any other culture,” said anthro
pologist William Lipe of Washing
ton State University.
Among modern-day Indians of
the Southwest, leaders of the Hopi,
Zuni and other tribes have been es
pecially critical of cannibalism re
search.
Terry Knight, a.Ute MountainUte
tribal leader who supervised the ex
cavation, said of the findings: “Like
any other civilization, there were
good, productive people, and there
were bad people.”
Knight said he hopes the evidence
of cannibalism will force anthropolo
gists to revise their thinking about the
Anasazi culture. He said ancient Indi
an culture is too often treated in sim
plistic terms when it was in reality
complex, with many different tribes.
Cowboy Wash was one of about
10 Anasazi homesteads in the Four
Corners region. Today’s inhabitants,
the Utes, commissioned archaeolo
gists to conduct a scientific survey
before installing an irrigation system.
Even without the specter of canni
balism, the Anasazi are a mysterious
lost culture. They built an elaborate
network of roads and ceremonial cen
ters throughout the Southwest after
700 A.D. that were keenly oriented to
the heavens. Severe drought helped
to disperse the society by 1300 A.D.
Forty miles east of Cowboy Wash
stands Mesa Verde, now an elaborate
ghost city protected by cliffs and
served by aqueducts. Most Anasazi
lived in hardscrabble settlements,
growing corn and hunting game.
The pit dwellings at Cowboy Wash
appear to have been heavily used for
many years, then suddenly aban
doned. They contained pots, grinding
stones, jewelry and other valuables.
In the ruins, researchers also
found seven dismembered skeletons
in 1994. The bones had been stripped
of their flesh, then roasted and
cracked for their fatty marrow. Skulls
were scorched and cracked open for
their brains. In the center of one
cooking hearth was found a copro-
lite, or piece of dried feces.
The scene suggested a gruesome
butchering, but critics complained
the evidence was circumstantial. In
1997, Marlar offered to find bio
chemical proof.
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