It isn't drought so much as famine, whatever the famine's cause, that leads to violence. Hungary people have a tendency to get violent.
But the Anasazi in the 12th century reminded me a a controversy I've following for the last decade or so: did the Anasazi engage in cannibalism? Researchers Divided Over Whether Anasazi Were Cannibals?. The evidence for it is also from the 12th Century. The Anasazi descendents hotly deny it and suggest the evidence is really about the execution of witches. There's no doubt the Pueblo Indians haven't had a violent culture in a long long time. But I don't think anyone is looking at the evidence of 12th Century violence all that dispassionately.
I wish I still had access to the Denver Library, they ordered papers and books beyond the popular press, so we could read the actual scientific papers when the controversy began. Alas we no longer have access to a library anything like that.
But the Anasazi in the 12th century reminded me a a controversy I've following for the last decade or so: did the Anasazi engage in cannibalism? Researchers Divided Over Whether Anasazi Were Cannibals?. The evidence for it is also from the 12th Century. The Anasazi descendents hotly deny it and suggest the evidence is really about the execution of witches. There's no doubt the Pueblo Indians haven't had a violent culture in a long long time. But I don't think anyone is looking at the evidence of 12th Century violence all that dispassionately.
I wish I still had access to the Denver Library, they ordered papers and books beyond the popular press, so we could read the actual scientific papers when the controversy began. Alas we no longer have access to a library anything like that.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
