More old news passed as new – Chaco Canyon imported food
Posted On: Jan 28th, 2017 at 00:26
United States
It’s not me who is going nuts… or is it?
You decide.
According to new research regarding the Pueblo culture – and in this case the most famous location, Chaco Canyon – the people must have imported most of their food crops, which would mainly have consisted of corn. Apparently.
Chaco Canyon is famous because it has thrown up a deep mystery – the people seemingly disappeared and there is no evidence of them migrating elsewhere. It is, without doubt, one of the great mysteries of archaeology and it often brings up a variety paranormal explanations because normal ones don’t hold up to scrutiny. Or do they?
A new report published last month provides evidence that the Pueblo people of Chaco Canyon imported their food. Much of the article is a lot of nonsense and guesswork (as usual), but at least they provide the sensible idea that, actually, not that many people lived there. It has always been suggested the “town” had a population of several thousand, based on the quantity of housing. No one seems to have thought of the idea that Chaco Canyon may have been a ceremonial centre and maybe, just maybe, only a few people actually lived there, or even none at all, and that the site was perhaps used only for religious celebrations. Shelberg, however, had already concluded in 1982 that “Chaco Canyon does not have enough arable land of sufficient agricultural quality to support even a small residential population”. That was 35 years ago.
The mind boggles, sometimes, at the stupidity. I am pulling my hair out at this article, for in 2011 a paper was released with exactly the same conclusions – that the Pueblo People of Chaco Canyon imported their food. The paper is in the comments section. In fact those conclusions were made in 2008 by Larry Benson, but the 2012 paper contains more detail.
I wonder how many years of research it took them to conclude something that was already concluded?
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-12/uoca-acc122916.php
